{"id":160,"date":"2006-06-23T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2006-06-23T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T13:09:16","slug":"a-place-called-cornelius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/23\/a-place-called-cornelius\/","title":{"rendered":"a place called cornelius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summer was shorts and sandals.  Trying to fish an alligator out of Lake Norman &#8211;  Jo <em>swore<\/em> she saw it on the boat slip.  Billy swore he&#8217;d catch it.  <\/p>\n<p>A Cape Cod with a white picket fence.  A lawn, mowed before we rolled out of bed. <\/p>\n<p>Speed boats.  Jet skis and clear blue.  That little strip of motorway that cuts it all in half.  The man who drove his boat clear across it &#8211; the Urban myth.   <\/p>\n<p>We spent hours not playing golf.  In wide-open warm.  <\/p>\n<p>Bone idle relaxation.  A party at a Lineman&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p>Muddy water coves where drunks got drunker and tried not to drown.  We went there too.  When they weren&#8217;t around.  When we looked awful from exercise sweat and couldn&#8217;t be bothered.  But drunks are clever at finding places where you go to not be bothered.  <\/p>\n<p>Dissertations left undone.  A trunk full of wet towels and sand.  Two girls I haven&#8217;t seen since.  One I&#8217;ve seen only twice.  <\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/10\/%ce%bd%ce%af%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b1%cf%82-and-%ce%bd%ce%af%ce%ba%ce%b7-neekolas-and-neeki\/\"target=_blank>yacht on the Mediterranean.<\/a>  But it was good.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer was shorts and sandals. Trying to fish an alligator out of Lake Norman &#8211; Jo swore she saw it on the boat slip. Billy swore he&#8217;d catch it. A Cape Cod with a white picket fence. A lawn, mowed before we rolled out of bed. Speed boats. Jet skis and clear blue. That<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}