{"id":107,"date":"2012-01-12T23:24:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T23:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2018-07-18T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T07:35:29","slug":"366-unusual-things-days-8-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things:  days 8-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8th Jan &#8211; Tonight I found the very first comment on my blog.\u00a0 It took 8 days.<\/p>\n<p>9th Jan &#8211; I was having coffee in the far back corner of a caf\u00e9 when a short European man dumped a heavy cardboard box on my table.\u00a0 I jumped.\u00a0 When he went off to speak to the manageress I took a peek and saw 8 plastic boxes full of honeycomb.<\/p>\n<p>10th Jan &#8211; I saw a bike chained to a rack, its front wheel twisted by vandals. But something about its melted form was worth remembering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melted_wheel.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110\" title=\"melted_wheel\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melted_wheel.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melted_wheel.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/melted_wheel-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>11th Jan &#8211; The Housing tenants are sweeping their path, hosing the gutter, picking up rubbish and putting away the seven chairs they usually gather on to smoke and drink and abuse passers-by.\u00a0 A 9-year-old girl picks up debris while her corpulent grandmother holds open a large plastic bag, a cigarette dangling from her lips.\u00a0 The authorities have visited.<\/p>\n<p>12th Jan &#8211; A Swiss friend made<em> une tresse<\/em>, a plaited bread roll, for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8th Jan &#8211; Tonight I found the very first comment on my blog.\u00a0 It took 8 days. 9th Jan &#8211; I was having coffee in the far back corner of a caf\u00e9 when a short European man dumped a heavy cardboard box on my table.\u00a0 I jumped.\u00a0 When he went off to speak to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;366 unusual things:  days 8-12&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[18,23],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-18","tag-unusual"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"8th Jan - Tonight I found the very first comment on my blog. 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