{"id":958,"date":"2008-12-27T17:34:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/27\/few-words\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T18:24:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:24:19","slug":"few-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/27\/few-words\/","title":{"rendered":"few words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/christmas-mb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Christmas Buffy n Mallorie\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/christmas-mb.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/christmas-mb-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><center>&#8220;The Writer must write what he has to say. Not speak it.&#8221; &#8211; Hemingway<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>I can count the people who&#8217;ve seen me cry on half a hand.  I joke that I&#8217;m emotionally stunted.  And that&#8217;s the joke&#8230;that it&#8217;s not one.  It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m working on.  An &#8216;In Progress&#8217; type thing.  On Christmas Eve I sat runny nosed and shamefaced, for no real reason, as I opened the presents from the Girls.  <\/p>\n<p>Hemingway&#8217;s words (caption above) were engraved on this year&#8217;s pressie from Mal.  Steph&#8217;s gift was a mint condition, leather bound, early edition novel by Mark Twain.   You have to know me pretty well to come up with this combination.  And you have to pretty much <strong>BE<\/strong> me to add Strawberry Shortcake (the doll, not the dessert) to the mix.  <\/p>\n<p>Sweet does not begin to describe it&#8230;<\/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>&#8220;The Writer must write what he has to say. Not speak it.&#8221; &#8211; Hemingway I can count the people who&#8217;ve seen me cry on half a hand. I joke that I&#8217;m emotionally stunted. And that&#8217;s the joke&#8230;that it&#8217;s not one. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m working on. An &#8216;In Progress&#8217; type thing. On Christmas Eve I sat<!-- 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":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}