{"id":3597,"date":"2018-02-05T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:51:44","slug":"notes-from-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/notes-from-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An indifferent bartender and then I exude a little kindness and he becomes different. Exude is a great verb.<\/p>\n<p>Bogus salsa music. It&#8217;s all wrong for the city.<\/p>\n<p>Across the street a homeless man bundles and unbundles his possessions. He&#8217;s having a monologue with his things. I&#8217;ve done that.<\/p>\n<p>The word trepanning comes to mind. My country needs a trepanning.<\/p>\n<p>A young couple drinks shots of something brown and sit on a picnic table. A picnic in the city in winter.<\/p>\n<p>To and fro and to fro. The city.<\/p>\n<p>I used to live here. I didn&#8217;t write a word.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be homeless? I&#8217;ll be homeless in a few months, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Broken minds and broken bodies parade outside the window. Put the call out for broken arrow for my country.<\/p>\n<p>Three transients play video poker. One of them has has things stored in a laundry hamper rigged with wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Where is rain?<\/p>\n<p>Where is luck in the city? The country for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>A man wearing blue drapes walks up the steps to the library.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese tourists move down the sidewalk in a pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An indifferent bartender and then I exude a little kindness and he becomes different. Exude is a great verb. Bogus salsa music. It&#8217;s all wrong for the city. Across the street a homeless man bundles and unbundles his possessions. He&#8217;s having a monologue with his things. I&#8217;ve done that. The word trepanning comes to mind. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}