{"id":1521,"date":"2002-08-15T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-15T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2002\/08\/15\/1521\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:21:37","slug":"1521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2002\/08\/15\/1521\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now it&#8217;s showering sideways, and the wind is blowing so hard the water is going up the hill. Yesterday it was a lot harder. The picnic table almost flipped off the deck, and the first tree we planted when we moved here split. It&#8217;s not exactly down the middle, because the trunk is mostly intact, but about half the branches are sheared off in one big clump.<\/p>\n<p>The tree looks lopsided now, of course. The other half is still lying on the ground on the lawn,and I keep looking at it like it&#8217;s an open wound. Which it is, I guess. I want to cut the dying part off and drag it behind the house, to patch up the torn part with tar, but it&#8217;s raining now and Mom says it&#8217;s going to die anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061097314\/qid=1029439525\/sr=2-1\/ref=sr_2_1\/102-9480174-1273707\">The Bean Trees<\/a>. I don&#8217;t go back to school until the 25th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now it&#8217;s showering sideways, and the wind is blowing so hard the water is going up the hill. Yesterday it was a lot harder. The picnic table almost flipped off the deck, and the first tree we planted when we moved here split. It&#8217;s not exactly down the middle, because the trunk is mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}