{"id":646,"date":"2008-02-03T16:52:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/tug-town\/"},"modified":"2013-05-01T00:43:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T00:43:11","slug":"tug-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/tug-town\/","title":{"rendered":"tug town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Must have been 1996 the last time I saw him move like that.  He bet my brother that a man on foot &#8211; even an old one &#8211; could out run any six cylinder set beside him in a few-second dash.  <\/p>\n<p>Pa was 60 and recovering from back surgery and Davy was 16 and in a 92 Pontiac.  They had their race.  Pa won just like Davy knew he wouldn&#8217;t.  And when he did he laughed and told the whole town and felt young again. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/cem1.jpg' rel=lightbox title='Grapevine Mountain'><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/cem2.jpg' alt='Grapevine Mountain' border=0 \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last summer I watched him sprint across the road.  He pumped his arms and grinned and made it look easy.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was a boy,  I was a runner.  I used to come off that mountain&#8230;I&#8217;d make seven miles before I&#8217;d even lose m&#8217;wind.  Five more &#8216;fore I had to stop.  And that&#8217;s just cause I got to town.&#8221;  Here he pauses.  Looks contemplative.  &#8220;Boy&#8217;s, you reckon how far I could&#8217;a run if I hadn&#8217;t had town to stop me?&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>I wonder this sometimes.  Where he would have went.  How far he may have gone.  If it weren&#8217;t for the little town that stopped him. <\/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>Must have been 1996 the last time I saw him move like that. He bet my brother that a man on foot &#8211; even an old one &#8211; could out run any six cylinder set beside him in a few-second dash. Pa was 60 and recovering from back surgery and Davy was 16 and in<!-- 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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}