{"id":566,"date":"2005-04-24T15:41:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T23:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=566"},"modified":"2006-10-19T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T00:04:08","slug":"hes-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/04\/24\/hes-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dans_parents_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/dans_parents_sm.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"154\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nBertha and Emerson Downing<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/dans_parents.html\">View larger image<\/a><br \/>\nI remember when I first met Emerson.  I was at work, and my aunt called me and told me to come home early, because a Gringuito was coming in answer to the ad for the room, and I was the only one who could speak English.<\/p>\n<p>My mother, sister and I were living with my Aunt in a brand new house she had bought with lottery winnings, on Mazatlan 161 (Colonia Condesa, right near the Angel).  The house had two floors and three bathrooms, and she advertised one bedroom and bath for rent to supplement her income.<\/p>\n<p>I came home early; it was raining.  I peered out of the Venetian blinds waiting for him.  He arrived in a little beat-up old Ford.  The minute he stepped out of the car, I said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for me!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>He came into the house; we showed him his room; he rented it on the spot\u00c3\u2013and he never left.  Poor Bolton Mallory &#8212; I dumped him right away.<\/p>\n<p> This is the house we were married in.  We did not get married in the church because Emerson was not a Catholic.  His best man was Oliver Ormond, an FBI friend from Texas, who was later killed in a plane crash.  Only my side of the family came to the wedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bertha and Emerson Downing View larger image I remember when I first met Emerson. I was at work, and my aunt called me and told me to come home early, because a Gringuito was coming in answer to the ad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/04\/24\/hes-for-me\/\">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":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dan","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}