{"id":544,"date":"2005-03-28T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=544"},"modified":"2005-03-28T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T12:28:00","slug":"mikes-last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/03\/28\/mikes-last-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike&#8217;s last Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00c3\u00ads 4:30 AM, Matt and Diane are fast asleep, my truck is packed and I\u00c3\u00adm about to jump in and drive to Indiana (Peter Finlay refers to all those interior states as \u00c3\u00acSomewhere in the middle.\u00c3\u00ae) to visit my parents. A planned trip that follows my sister\u00c3\u00ads visit where she was able to provide comfort to my mother who is a bit under the weather. Anyway, I figure the blog needs all the commenters it can get, and her absence the last two and a half weeks has been glaring.  I hope I can help move  her back in front of her iMac; she\u00c3\u00adll love la Chica\u00c3\u00ads baby pictures.<\/p>\n<p>**************************<\/p>\n<p>I have Diane\u00c3\u00ads permission to have, for the purposes of a non-boring blog entry, a clinical, no strings attached, one night stand with a middle aged, marriage-on-the -rocks,  bleached blond named Brenda. I\u00c3\u00adm pretty sure I\u00c3\u00adll meet her tonight in the Motel Six bar just outside of Dayton and she\u00c3\u00adll be from Brownsville.  That\u00c3\u00ads usually the way these things work.  In Diane\u00c3\u00ads exact words, \u00c3\u00acIf even Chris is no longer sending witty and poignant stories, well heck, Mike, you gotta do what you gotta do.\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00c3\u00ads 4:30 AM, Matt and Diane are fast asleep, my truck is packed and I\u00c3\u00adm about to jump in and drive to Indiana (Peter Finlay refers to all those interior states as \u00c3\u00acSomewhere in the middle.\u00c3\u00ae) to visit my parents. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/03\/28\/mikes-last-stand\/\">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-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}