{"id":7601,"date":"2008-10-16T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T00:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2017-05-26T20:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:21:13","slug":"rare-brief-look-private-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=7601","title":{"rendered":"A Rare and Brief Look Into My Private Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on the website <A HREF=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/heronflight\/\" TARGET=\"_BLANK\">Heron Flight<\/A>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThursday, October 16, 2008<br \/>\n1:06 PM <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at the park. Listening to Prince&#8217;s &#8220;Purple Rain&#8221; album. <\/p>\n<p>When I pulled in, there was a woman in a green Honda feeding a baby. Not with the breast. With a bottle on her lap. <\/p>\n<p>Then an Elgin Whirlwind street sweeper largely hummed through the parking lot and dumped a pile of gravel. Not on its own. There was a man driving it. <\/p>\n<p>I wish I didn&#8217;t have to go back to the office right away. I&#8217;d rather stay here and observe who else comes to the park. Maybe a troop of belly dancers in rubber boots. Or a communist tank from Cuba. <\/p>\n<p>Or a dog. <\/p>\n<p>Or a group of belly dancing communist dogs on a Cuban tank. A rubber one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on the website Heron Flight) Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:06 PM I&#8217;m at the park. Listening to Prince&#8217;s &#8220;Purple Rain&#8221; album. When I pulled in, there was a woman in a green Honda feeding a baby. Not with the breast. With a bottle on her lap. Then an Elgin Whirlwind street sweeper largely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=7601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Rare and Brief Look Into My Private Journal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heron-flight","category-private-journal-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}