{"id":1318,"date":"2017-06-28T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2017-06-28T20:21:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:21:38","slug":"roadside-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/28\/roadside-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I walk through my neighborhood, I see stories everywhere. And some of these stories are found in the things that are lost or thrown away.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not always the items themselves that inspire a story…it\u2019s the combination<\/em> of items. Like this mattress and suitcase.
\n\"Mattress
\nWhat\u2019s the story there? <\/p>\n

Well, here\u2019s the scenario that immediately popped into my mind.<\/p>\n

A traveling salesman, home from days or weeks — or even an entire career<\/em> on the road. Finally ready to stay put.<\/p>\n

He purchases the best mattress money can buy and throws away the old. Then he tosses out his old suitcase, too. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m home,\u201d he thinks with a smile. \u201cAt last, I\u2019m home to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I walk through my neighborhood, I see stories everywhere. And some of these stories are found in the things that are lost or thrown away. It\u2019s not always the items themselves that inspire a story…it\u2019s the combination of items. … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighborhood","category-walkabout-wednesday","tag-neighborhood","tag-walkabout-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}