{"id":6950,"date":"2021-04-22T06:42:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2021-04-22T06:42:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:42:28","slug":"oregon-tavern-age-the-mooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/oregon-tavern-age-the-mooning\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Tavern Age: The Mooning"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6950\" data-postid=\"6950\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6950 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Dolly Parton&#8217;s \u201cCoat of Many Colors\u201d played through the speakers. I want her face, (okay, cleavage, too) on a unit of US currency. Make it a $44 bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sat at my usual corner table in the back of the joint, next to the King Kong pinball machine, drinking a craft malt liquor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To my right, half a hairy ass mooned me from a chair. It was an OTA man&#8217;s ass and this mooning was a first for me in OTA country. How a body sitting in a chair could half moon like that was a marvel of American anatomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moon Man was drinking a shot of Crown Royal with a Tecate back. His OTA buddy at his table was drinking the same. The two men were alternately watching golf and auto racing. A packet of Pall Malls rested on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They sat glued to the screens and held exactly one conversation. Actually it was one question to the Moon Man:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDid you cut those shorts off yourself?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well said. I&#8217;d rather have a friend who was terse in storytelling rather than a windbag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I drifted away from them and back to the letter I was writing in longhand. I was trying to write as legible as possible, but was failing. So what? The recipient would be happy to see a real handwritten letter arrive in the mail. It&#8217;s like a mystical communication from an undiscovered country that a golden eagle delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two OTA men stood up from their table. The mooning ceased. They limped together like a couple shot-up deputies toward the video slots. I considered putting them in the letter, but there were more pressing matters to discuss, in this case, questions to a writer about what is worth writing about.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton&#8217;s \u201cCoat of Many Colors\u201d played through the speakers. I want her face, (okay, cleavage, too) on a unit of US currency. Make it a $44 bill. I sat at my usual corner table in the back of the joint, next to the King Kong pinball machine, drinking a craft malt liquor. To my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-tavern-age","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\/6950","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=6950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6953,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions\/6953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}