{"id":620,"date":"2005-06-23T05:57:40","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=620"},"modified":"2006-10-19T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T00:47:59","slug":"hes-outta-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/06\/23\/hes-outta-here\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s Outta Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"matt_security_2sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/matt_security_2sm.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"191\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/matt_security_2.html\">View larger image<\/a><br \/>\nYesterday, Joe and Robby were here to see Matt off, and Joe said something like, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Have fun in Europe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when it sunk-in for me, and, I believe, for Matt because on the drive to airport he kept saying,  &#8220;I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to wake up in a foreign country?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (The blessings of an exam tired youth meant sleep on the plane). How had we taken this trip so casually? Because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not Nicaragua? Because he has already flown (take a guess at the number *) since he was born?<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at the airport early and after a steak and cheese sandwich and an IBC root beer Matt said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to go through security for forty minutes. Your plane doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t leave for an hour and a half.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I tried to hold him back.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re staying with us for another forty minutes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Two hugs later and he was a mere<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/matt_passingon.html\"> ghost <\/a>passing through security.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, my son, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget to visit Dash.<\/p>\n<p>(*35. I boarded my first plane at twenty-one)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View larger image Yesterday, Joe and Robby were here to see Matt off, and Joe said something like, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Have fun in Europe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when it sunk-in for me, and, I believe, for Matt because on the drive to airport he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/06\/23\/hes-outta-here\/\">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-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}