{"id":244,"date":"2004-04-30T06:39:52","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=244"},"modified":"2006-10-16T18:45:41","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T22:45:41","slug":"testing-the-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/04\/30\/testing-the-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing the Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived home the other day to find Matthew and Sarah in the kitchen talking to Diane.  I told Matt to leave the room because I had something I wanted to ask Sarah in private. Matt shook his head as he headed down the hall to the living room.<\/p>\n<p>I knew Sarah had heard most of the camping stories from the boys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sarah, do you think Matthew would ever go back to Maine with me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She smiled, maybe relieved that my &#8220;personal question&#8221; wasn&#8217;t so personal. &#8220;You mean go somewhere with two feet of ice?  And winds that almost blew him, while inside his tent,  into the lake?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, that Maine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"auntieface_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/auntieface_sm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/> Last breakfast at Auntie M&#8217;s in , Greenville, Maine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/auntieface.html\">View larger image<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"asleepo_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/asleepo_sm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The ride home.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/asleep.html\">View larger image<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived home the other day to find Matthew and Sarah in the kitchen talking to Diane. I told Matt to leave the room because I had something I wanted to ask Sarah in private. Matt shook his head as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/04\/30\/testing-the-waters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}