{"id":880,"date":"2012-03-30T04:26:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T04:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2012-03-30T04:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T04:26:42","slug":"366-unusual-things-days-84-88-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things:  days 84-88 (Take 2&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I posted these unusual things.\u00a0 Today, I tried to add a photo, and then another unusual thing happened.\u00a0 My post disappeared.\u00a0 Poof!\u00a0 Fortunately, my husband, as one of my &#8216;followers&#8217;, had an email version that I could copy.\u00a0 So let&#8217;s do this one more time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>24th Mar &#8211; My oldest son is 26 today.\u00a0 This is the first time I&#8217;ve had such an old child.<\/p>\n<p>25th Mar &#8211; Walked past a front yard that is all garden, lush and green and shaded by three big trees.\u00a0 Through the luxuriance snakes a path of imitation grass.<\/p>\n<p>26th Mar &#8211; Reading George Sand&#8217;s 1838 travel account, <em>Un Hiver \u00e0 Majorque<\/em> &#8211; 181 pages.\u00a0 Searched in the library for the English translation, <em>Winter in Majorca<\/em>, assuming it would be the same size, but found a thin 43-pager.\u00a0 Dead authors are fair game for some translators.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/abcvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/valldemossa-majorque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"485\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carthusian Monastery, Valldemossa, Majorca, where George Sand, her children, and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin spent the winter of 1838\/39<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>27th Mar &#8211; At my nine-year-old student&#8217;s house, she misheard my question after a woman unknown to me walked past the table:<br \/>\n&#8220;Who was that?\u00a0 Is she a relative?,&#8221; I asked.<br \/>\n&#8220;She&#8217;s my grandmother,&#8221; she replied.<br \/>\nAfter a silent moment, she asked, &#8220;Why did you say that?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Say what?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That she&#8217;s irrelevant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>28th Mar &#8211; Afternoon:\u00a0 A tiny Housing tenant wandered into my yard and sat on my steps, his parents close behind.\u00a0 We chatted;\u00a0 it was pleasant.\u00a0 Another &#8216;first&#8217;.<br \/>\nEvening:\u00a0 An angry man shouting from mid-street threatened this same little family with unbloggable sufferings, until the police arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I posted these unusual things.\u00a0 Today, I tried to add a photo, and then another unusual thing happened.\u00a0 My post disappeared.\u00a0 Poof!\u00a0 Fortunately, my husband, as one of my &#8216;followers&#8217;, had an email version that I could copy.\u00a0 So let&#8217;s do this one more time&#8230; 24th Mar &#8211; My oldest son is 26 today.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;366 unusual things:  days 84-88 (Take 2&#8230;)&#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":[1],"tags":[18,73,69,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-18","tag-frederic-chopin","tag-george-sand","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012","tag-unusual"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}