I’m drinking drip coffee and writing a\ntale about a chipmunk that eats magic mushrooms. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Log trucks are ripping by. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a little after 6:30 a.m. I stopped\nin the 101 coffee shop before my construction job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two old men sit across the room from me\nand engage in conspiracy conversation. There isn’t a shred of doubt\nin their words. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Clintons murdered someone else.\nThe hit list has been updated. They killed his brother, you know. And\nFoster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe CIA owns Google or Google owns\nthe CIA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so on. They just know it’s all true\nbecause it’s right there on the Internet. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their conversation turns to the\nupcoming 4th<\/sup> of July celebration and how it’s been ruined\nby the local liberals. \u201cToo many self righteous liberals! They\ncan’t keep politics out of the 4th<\/sup> of July.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou mark my words, they’ll be\nbanning fireworks next, because of pollution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n They bemoan the changing softening\nnature of the celebration. They didn’t want hayrides and petting\nzoos. They want the famous Indian massacre reenacted, like it was\nyears ago. Why not celebrate genocide? It got us where we are. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I decide not to tell them I am going to\ngive a hundred chipmunks magic mushrooms before the big parade and\nturn them loose on the town. They would find out for themselves and\nmake a conspiracy out of it. Somehow, though, the Clintons and Barak\nwould find their way into the blame. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m drinking drip coffee and writing a tale about a chipmunk that eats magic mushrooms. Log trucks are ripping by. It’s a little after 6:30 a.m. I stopped in the 101 coffee shop before my construction job. Two old men sit across the room from me and engage in conspiracy conversation. There isn’t a shred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1043,1042,652],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-101-coffee-shop","tag-clintons","tag-coffee-shop-writing","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\/5178","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=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}