{"id":6686,"date":"2021-01-18T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2021-01-18T07:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:22:35","slug":"portland-scenes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/portland-scenes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Scenes 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6686\" data-postid=\"6686\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6686 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>A bearded and elderly transient wearing a safety vest directed traffic at the McDonald&#8217;s drive-thru. Am I supposed to tip him? He reminded me of that line from the Stones&#8217; immortal song \u201cShattered,\u201d which probably should be the American national anthem of the Pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>People dressed in plastic bags<br>Directing traffic<br>Some kind of fashion<br>Shattered<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man wearing a kilt bought scotch in a liquor store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A teenager pulls a u-turn with his sedan in the middle of a busy street outside the liquor store to pick up his buddies in the parking lot of a convenience store. When he rolls up to his crew, one of them says to him, \u201cThat was gigging shit.\u201d Wait, gigging is my word! I don&#8217;t want it to become part of teenager slang!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A squirrel on a fence looked like he might attack me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tent was pitched mere inches from a railroad track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man read the contents of his energy drink as he walked his dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A very large woman wore practically no clothes while walking down the sidewalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A homeless man growled at me when I passed him splayed on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mt. Hood looked damn fine this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Willamette River is running incredibly high. There will be choice cuts of beaverwood washed ashore soon. Joy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vehicle I am driving could have given me a real-time stock report as I drove by a homeless encampment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bearded and elderly transient wearing a safety vest directed traffic at the McDonald&#8217;s drive-thru. Am I supposed to tip him? He reminded me of that line from the Stones&#8217; immortal song \u201cShattered,\u201d which probably should be the American national anthem of the Pandemic. People dressed in plastic bagsDirecting trafficSome kind of fashionShattered A man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6686","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\/6686","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=6686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6688,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions\/6688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}