{"id":2869,"date":"2012-12-24T03:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T03:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2018-08-25T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T05:46:29","slug":"366-unusual-things-days-354-358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2869","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things: days 354 – 358"},"content":{"rendered":"

19th Dec – My son cooked dinner for the six of us in his apartment.\u00a0 It’s his 24th birthday but he<\/em> spoilt us<\/em>.<\/p>\n

20th Dec – In my household, 4 things have an imperfection in their 4th working part:
\nOne leg has rusted off my fashionably pre-rusted outdoor table;
\nOne of four glass feet on a blue heirloom vase broke off and rejects the strongest glue;
\nOur dog’s fourth leg hangs limply since he broke a ligament;
\nOne candle on a German Christmas carousel burns out before the other three.\u00a0 But here it is, running on 4 pistons:<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

21st Dec – Received an email from a publisher’s employee with the Dickensian name of Robert Puffett.<\/p>\n

22nd Dec – On a shady bench in the Sculpture Garden, away from visitor paths, I read my translation aloud into a recorder.<\/p>\n

23rd Dec – At 7 am as I wandered in the garden, bees buzzed about my ears and eyes.\u00a0 I looked up into the fig tree and saw and heard a swarm of them gathering sweet sticky honeydew left by a plague of aphids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

19th Dec – My son cooked dinner for the six of us in his apartment.\u00a0 It’s his 24th birthday but he spoilt us. 20th Dec – In my household, 4 things have an imperfection in their 4th working part: One leg has rusted off my fashionably pre-rusted outdoor table; One of four glass feet on … <\/p>\n

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