{"id":949,"date":"2008-06-01T07:01:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=949"},"modified":"2008-06-01T15:36:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T19:36:38","slug":"for-a-while-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/01\/for-a-while-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"for a while, yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, yesterday,<br \/>\nthe only explanation was<br \/>\nthe cat had stolen the keys.<\/p>\n<p>We were headed out<br \/>\nfor a grocery shopping<br \/>\nsession, to stock up<br \/>\non various items<br \/>\nnecessary to life and limb.<\/p>\n<p>But we couldn&#8217;t leave<br \/>\nbecause the sacred<br \/>\ncar key was mysteriously<br \/>\ngone.<\/p>\n<p>We retraced my steps:<br \/>\nthe night before<br \/>\nI had entered<br \/>\nafter the movie<br \/>\nand had done<br \/>\nso and so<br \/>\nand had certainly<br \/>\nplaced the keys<br \/>\nin the usual spot<br \/>\nbut there they were:<br \/>\ngone.<\/p>\n<p>We looked for<br \/>\ntwenty minutes<br \/>\nand finally departed<br \/>\nusing the spare keys<br \/>\nmystified, blaming<br \/>\nthe cat or<br \/>\na cat burglar.<\/p>\n<p>It was not until<br \/>\nwe were on our way<br \/>\nback to the car with<br \/>\nour purchases<br \/>\nthat I reached into my pocket<br \/>\nand found both<br \/>\nsets of keys.<\/p>\n<p>Flora, of course,<br \/>\nlaughed all day.<\/p>\n<p>[print_link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, yesterday, the only explanation was the cat had stolen the keys. We were headed out for a grocery shopping session, to stock up on various items necessary to life and limb. But we couldn&#8217;t leave because the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/01\/for-a-while-yesterday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,3],"tags":[477,476,478],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-poetry","tag-befuddledness","tag-memory","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}