{"id":174,"date":"2014-08-05T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com.php53-12.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2014-08-05T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:53:09","slug":"old-aquaintance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Old aquaintance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com.php53-12.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-176\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com.php53-12.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bp1-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"bp1\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bp1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bp1.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a visit from someone that I met in second grade, many long years ago. \u00a0 The school we attended was a working-class, Catholic school, run by nuns who mostly hated children. \u00a0My friend lived across the alley and like me had a bunch of little brothers. \u00a0 We started out the same, but life has taken us into much different paths. \u00a0Until recently my friend said she had not thought much about the past until she reconnected with other girls from this school via Facebook (and my brother was the one who connected me with them). \u00a0I did not like to think about this past because it was not very pleasant to dwell upon, but it is impossible to completely escape. \u00a0It is possible to contemplate now because it is the <em>past<\/em>. \u00a0 We had our futures marked out as children, playing house to prepare us for our lives. \u00a0Perhaps working as a secretary, at a bank, or at a factory. \u00a0 I took a leap into a different future. \u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t easy, but it was the direction I needed to go.<\/p>\n<p>This is my 12th birthday, I&#8217;m the one with glasses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a visit from someone that I met in second grade, many long years ago. \u00a0 The school we attended was a working-class, Catholic school, run by nuns who mostly hated children. \u00a0My friend lived across the alley and like me had a bunch of little brothers. \u00a0 We started out the same, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old aquaintance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}