{"id":420,"date":"2004-11-07T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=420"},"modified":"2006-10-20T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T18:12:08","slug":"promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/11\/07\/promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

I make promises I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep. Chris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s influence on our camping trip for instance…I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m bored with the idea. The problem is, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve told the stories too many times, and my brain will freeze if I attempt to write them.<\/p>\n

Better is his dad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s email to Molly, Chris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister:<\/p>\n

Dear Molly,<\/p>\n

Chris and I just came back from camping with Mike and Mark Queijo in Northern Maine. Chris is now a man, having passed the wilderness test of being able to drink fine wine and beer in one hand, listen to Red Sox on radio with the other and then get up in the morning (not afternoon) and hike for several hours.<\/p>\n

We have given him a local Indian name, “SOS”, which means “tall one who holds the radio.” If you’re interested in history, the short version is “radio holder” or in Chipawa “SOS,” pronounced “sauce” as in curry sauce. Happy show. <\/p>\n

Dad<\/p>\n

*Editor’s note: Yes, he did get up before noon, but is 11:59 really before noon?<\/p>\n

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The expanded view <\/a> of Chris crossing the stream as requested by fellowphotographer with the ip number (12.148.2.90 ) equivalent of a single digit license plate.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Kibbe addition, circa one year later. Can anyone tell what is wrong with this photo? Hint: The barely discernible black object is the gas grill, the pupurlish object is a hardy mum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I make promises I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep. Chris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s influence on our camping trip for instance…I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m bored with the idea. The problem is, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve told the stories too many times, and my brain will freeze if I attempt to write them. Better … Continue reading →<\/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-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}