{"id":2851,"date":"2022-03-10T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2022-03-14T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:42:02","slug":"march-exclusion-tenth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/2851","title":{"rendered":"March Ex(clusion) \u2014 tenth day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Fates find a way.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Virgil<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today is the 44th anniversary of our first date, a number that does not fail to gain one\u2019s attention. Long ago, two much younger versions of ourselves transformed what could have been a day of utter dejection into our wellspring of loving companionship. Dana made venison chili while I toasted some blue corn, cheddar-jalapeno nachos. We opened a satisfying Cabernet made from \u201cnoble vines\u201d and watched Spielberg\u2019s <em>West Side Story<\/em>. Still sore from \u201cchecklist exercise\u201d and yard activity, I\u2019d done my best to neglect most of the daily duties so characteristic of March.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> The sprawling bush, shorn of last year\u2019s tangle of outermost growth, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> with thousands of tiny buds casting a mellow green tint across its bread-loaf shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Fates find a way.\u201d \u2013 Virgil &nbsp; Today is the 44th anniversary of our first date, a number that does not fail to gain one\u2019s attention. Long ago, two much younger versions of ourselves transformed what could have been a day of utter dejection into our wellspring of loving companionship. Dana made venison chili [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}