{"id":38,"date":"2013-01-01T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/?p=38"},"modified":"2013-01-01T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T14:56:17","slug":"cages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/cages\/","title":{"rendered":"cages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>...passing through one of the seedier parts of town, I stop off to visit with an old friend from college. I\u2019m surprised to find him here, in such strained circumstances.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We sit out on his little patch of front yard and chat for a bit, but it quickly grows tiresome. He\u2019s consumed by self-involved bitterness about the past and where his path in life has led&nbsp;him.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for any point to distract the conversation, I mention that one of our common college friends \u2014 a guy I\u2019ve known since junior high \u2014 has died, at a very young age. Not too much of a surprise, I explain. He ate and drank like a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Soon enough I make my excuses and my escape, leaving my friend to sit alone in his aluminum lawn chair inside the little cage of chain link surrounding his&nbsp;house.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>...passing through one of the seedier parts of town, I stop off to visit with an old friend from college. I\u2019m surprised to find him here, in such strained circumstances.&nbsp; We sit out on his little patch of front yard and chat for a bit, but it quickly grows tiresome. He\u2019s consumed by self-involved bitterness&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,47,46,45,48,43,42,49,27],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-aluminum-chairs","tag-bad-habits","tag-death","tag-errands","tag-fragments","tag-neighborhoods","tag-old-friends","tag-suburbs","tag-the-midlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}