{"id":1984,"date":"2007-04-07T11:50:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2007-04-07T11:51:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T15:51:16","slug":"lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/04\/07\/lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather live there, but here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another midwest story. <\/p>\n<p>If you walk the aisles of our Home Depot you can watch sales people scatter as if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the first local  case of Avian Flu. In Evansville, in those identical looking aisles, you get real tired of saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need any help.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>On my last visit, with my cart half-filled with plumbing supplies, and now abandoned in a long-forgotten aisle, a sprightly guy in orange walked up to me and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is there anything I can do for you?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  I paused, thought to myself should I really ask this, and then I said,  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes, I lost my shopping cart. Can you find it for me?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think so, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s go look at the end of aisle two.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather live there, but here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another midwest story. If you walk the aisles of our Home Depot you can watch sales people scatter as if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the first local case of Avian Flu. In Evansville, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/04\/07\/lost-and-found\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}