{"id":6368,"date":"2020-09-16T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2020-09-16T05:30:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T12:30:14","slug":"typewriter-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/typewriter-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Typewriter Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6368\" data-postid=\"6368\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6368 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Oregon was on fire. Facebook was doing its best to make it worse. I couldn&#8217;t travel to help my parents evacuate from their Clackamas County home. I had absolutely nothing to write and had just written about nothing. My favorite Pendleton shirt reeked of mold. I don&#8217;t have a dog. There wasn&#8217;t any wood left on my beaches to build a driftwood fort. The President was urging Americans to vote twice and break the law in order to ensure a lawful election result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So . . . I went to my favorite animal thrift store and felt certain something in there was going to change my life for the better. I knew it! I can say for the record that I have purchased items from a thrift store that have changed my life for the better, quite drastically in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw it. A blue portable Brothers Charger 11 typewriter from the 70s. Mint condition. $11! I found a piece of paper and ripped it around the platen. I hit the keys. Nothing. The ink was dry as a desert, dried out as American&#8217;s civic mindedness in the face of catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not matter about the ribbon. I could buy one online and be clanking away in a matter of days, perhaps even in OTA country! I&#8217;d be making a racket writing letters and streams of consciousness and pissing off the old timer who sits near my table and watches absurd B-Westerns. My god, the rifle fire from the Army killing the Indians is twice as loud as a typewriter. But when we come together, oh what a great noise it will make!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I left the story giddy and I strode into the smoke and fog with a tinge of happiness. Now to put that typewriter to work.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon was on fire. Facebook was doing its best to make it worse. I couldn&#8217;t travel to help my parents evacuate from their Clackamas County home. I had absolutely nothing to write and had just written about nothing. My favorite Pendleton shirt reeked of mold. I don&#8217;t have a dog. There wasn&#8217;t any wood left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6368","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\/6368","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=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6370,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/6370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}