{"id":910,"date":"2008-10-30T03:50:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/30\/no-place\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T11:24:08","slug":"no-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/30\/no-place\/","title":{"rendered":"no place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pa may be seventy-two.  But he still feels like he&#8217;s seventeen.  Not in his bones.  Or in his muscles.  Or maybe even in his mind.  But in the part of him that makes him&#8230;<em>him<\/em>.  It&#8217;s like the last fifty odd years just happened around him while his <em>being<\/em> stood still.   And that <em>being<\/em>..that thing that stares out his eyeballs&#8230;.the thing that can&#8217;t get its head around what its body wont do&#8230;is the thing that matters.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pame.jpg' alt='Buffy &#038; Pa' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pa feeds a cast-iron furnace when he&#8217;s cold.  Climbs into the mountains with empty gallon jugs when he&#8217;s thirsty.  I press a button to adjust the heat and pull a tap to fill my glass, and feel terrible about it every time.  Because my grandfather shouldn&#8217;t have to have it so hard.  Even if he wants it that way. <\/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>Pa may be seventy-two. But he still feels like he&#8217;s seventeen. Not in his bones. Or in his muscles. Or maybe even in his mind. But in the part of him that makes him&#8230;him. It&#8217;s like the last fifty odd years just happened around him while his being stood still. And that being..that thing 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}