{"id":651,"date":"2005-07-29T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=651"},"modified":"2005-07-29T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T18:37:09","slug":"at-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/07\/29\/at-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"At Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled our almost seven year old laptop out of the closet, wiped the hard drive clean, installed OS X and added a wireless card, and now I have a perfectly good traveling machine. I wonder if you could install XP on a laptop running at 333 mhz?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here we are sitting in the Townsend Ave Coffee House and Wine Bar (How perfect a combination is that? Come for breakfast and coffee and stay for lunch and dinner). By we, I now mean I. We arrived together but after coffee and postcards dutiful Diane has slipped off to the post office and to browse the local stores.  <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"red_dress_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/red_dress_sm.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"147\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nWalking by our table on Robinson&#8217;s Wharf, in  Southport, ME.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"local_band.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/local_band.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"181\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nDiane rolled her eyes as this band on the library common played Sousa Marches, but I rode the time machine back to an era I only knew from Saturday Evening Post covers, and perhaps one political rally in  Nevada, Missouri,  when I was fifteen.  I missed the photo op of the day &#8211; hands on hearts during The National Anthem.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/conductor.html\">Closer View<\/a><br \/>\nMatthew drove up in his Mazda and  joined us for a day and a half. We played three games of scrabble (they had no chance), and two games of mini-golf. In the first game Matt had two holes-in-one, but my sloppy score keeping ( I kept inserting his scores into my column) forced us to play that second game, in which Diane won. &#8220;It&#8217;s the sport I&#8217;m best at,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled our almost seven year old laptop out of the closet, wiped the hard drive clean, installed OS X and added a wireless card, and now I have a perfectly good traveling machine. I wonder if you could install &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/07\/29\/at-rest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}