{"id":223,"date":"2004-04-01T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T20:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=223"},"modified":"2004-04-01T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2004-04-01T20:50:18","slug":"future-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/04\/01\/future-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Future World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camping<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"robby.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/robby.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nMatt is not fond of cold weather or rain, and Robby (pictured above bagging groceries at Idylwilde) smiled broadly when I told him our first night in Millinocket ME would be spent in a motel. Visions of turquoise bottomed swimming pools danced in his head. Not small rooms with ceilings the color of cigarette smoke, beds that push back as hard as will the ground under our tents, and an in house restaurant that serves a grand buffet of runny yellow scrambled eggs, burnt bacon, and soggy toast. As for the cold weather and rain&#8230;pray for snow.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Stalking<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bmw_lot_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/bmw_lot_sm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"134\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nWe seem to be following Matt and his BMW, but here it is, parked in a numbered space at his high school. One wonders how he rates his own personal space.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/bmw_lot.html\">View larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Listening<br \/>\nLast Friday we didn\u00c3\u00adt make it the concert at Willow Books, instead we had dinner with Bob and Mary at Walden Grill and then walked across the street to The Performing Arts Center. There, we listened to the Concord Orchestra and pianist Sangjoung Kim perform Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor Op. 15. Two hours gone in a blink, not unlike listening to our \u00c3\u00acfriends\u00c3\u00ae at Willow. Right, Diane?<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Playing<br \/>\nToday I play Katie at 5 pm.  Dominic just asked me to play him<br \/>\ntonight at 8 pm. Now Patrick is asking me to play on Friday at 5 pm.<\/p>\n<p>If I survive, there may be a story.  If you don&#8217;t hear from me after<br \/>\nFri, ask Patrick to write the story.<\/p>\n<p>rakkity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camping Matt is not fond of cold weather or rain, and Robby (pictured above bagging groceries at Idylwilde) smiled broadly when I told him our first night in Millinocket ME would be spent in a motel. Visions of turquoise bottomed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/04\/01\/future-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}