{"id":103021,"date":"2013-01-30T06:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T11:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/103021\/the-past-is-now\/"},"modified":"2013-01-30T06:45:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T11:45:27","slug":"the-past-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/103021\/the-past-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":"the Past is NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">From about 1961 until 1985 I lived in a neighborhood where (initially) all the houses looked alike&#8230;Before Dad had aluminum siding put on the house, he painted it periodically&#8230;It started out with grey shingles&#8230;Not sure which came first, but at some point Dad painted the house brown with white trim&#8230;after awhile he reversed that color scheme&#8230;Any<font size=\"4\">way, overnight (or early this morning) I had yet another dream with the brown house as the setting&#8230;this happens enough to worry me a little&#8230;the other people in the dream are usually people I currently know, which makes no sense to me&#8230;&#8230;for instance&#8211;in<font size=\"4\"> this lates<font size=\"4\">t dream <\/font><\/font>I was mowing the back yard when I noticed <font size=\"4\">a large brown creature eating something&#8230;I couldn&#8217;t tell if it was a horse or a bear or a giant dog or what&#8230;I called out to my &#8220;roomie&#8221; (also my <font size=\"4\">former Wife&#8211;not even gonna bother explaining THAT) to come see this thing&#8230;I was somehow a<font size=\"4\">ble to throw whatever it was eating\/playing with into the yard next door&#8230;she and I NEVER lived in that house together, I doubt if she was there more than once or twice&#8230;I suspect it means that I DO regret moving away from Glen <font size=\"4\">Burnie but I&#8217;m not yet ready to fully agree with that&#8230;Twenty-seven years is a long time&#8230;you would think I&#8217;d be settled in as a Montgomery County\/DC area resident by now&#8230;It&#8217;s true that I don&#8217;t always know my way around; SHE does, but she&#8217;s lived here longer&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><font size=\"4\"><font size=\"4\"><font size=\"4\"><font size=\"4\"><font size=\"4\">Michelle and Rick did a gig w\/o me last night; if she can&#8217;t get it thru her head that I work on Tuesdays she really IS a dingbat&#8230;I doubt that Michell<font size=\"4\">e needs the money but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">maybe<\/span> Rick <font size=\"4\">does&#8230;and *I* don&#8217;t<font size=\"4\"> ? <\/font>She said she wanted &#8220;to keep our foot in the door&#8221;&#8211;of a place she no lon<font size=\"4\">ger wants to play? Yeah, THAT makes sense&#8230;whatever&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From about 1961 until 1985 I lived in a neighborhood where (initially) all the houses looked alike&#8230;Before Dad had aluminum siding put on the house, he painted it periodically&#8230;It started out with grey shingles&#8230;Not sure which came first, but at some point Dad painted the house brown with white trim&#8230;after awhile he reversed that color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}