{"id":386,"date":"2004-09-29T08:03:55","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=386"},"modified":"2004-09-29T08:03:55","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T16:03:55","slug":"the-puddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/09\/29\/the-puddle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a  quarter of a mile from the Queijo&#8217;s house you&#8217;ll drive through a puddle.  Mark includes that puddle when he gives out directions.  It\u00c3\u00ads always there and it only varies in size. Stop at the puddle, look left and right,  and you\u00c3\u00adll see vast stretches of water on either side of the road. If you put a canoe in the water there, and paddled down stream you&#8217;d eventually get to the hundred acre pond on which his house sits. Eventually I say, because you&#8217;d have to portage that canoe around the beaver dam.  <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"q_stream_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/q_stream_sm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The water that creates that puddle.<br \/>\nMark is a doer. He never stops and probably can\u00c3\u00adt. I could list all the things he\u00c3\u00ads accomplished recently, like the construction of his deck, but I won\u00c3\u00adt.  Because it doesn\u00c3\u00adt matter. The point I\u00c3\u00adm making is that of all the building and chopping and creating he has done around his house, none of it impresses me as much as what he did near his house. He got rid of that <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog\/dam\/index.htm\"> puddle.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a quarter of a mile from the Queijo&#8217;s house you&#8217;ll drive through a puddle. Mark includes that puddle when he gives out directions. It\u00c3\u00ads always there and it only varies in size. Stop at the puddle, look left and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/09\/29\/the-puddle\/\">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-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}