{"id":683,"date":"2005-09-05T08:31:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T16:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=683"},"modified":"2005-09-05T08:31:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T16:31:55","slug":"todays-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/09\/05\/todays-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"boarding.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/boarding.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"232\" \/><br \/>\nDiane (the itty bitty person passing through the metal detector) on her way to Minnesota.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"girls_nana.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/girls_nana.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"221\" \/><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s visit with Flo.<br \/>\nThe photo, if Diane were here, she wouldn&#8217;t let me <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/candid.html\">post<\/a> .<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"swimmers_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/swimmers_sm.jpg\" width=\"397\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Selecting A Reader<\/p>\n<p>First, I would have her be beautiful,<br \/>\nand walking carefully up on my poetry<br \/>\nat the loneliest moment of an afternoon,<br \/>\nher hair still damp at the neck<br \/>\nfrom washing it. She should be wearing<br \/>\na raincoat, an old one, dirty<br \/>\nfrom not having money enough for the cleaners.<br \/>\nShe will take out her glasses, and there<br \/>\nin the bookstore, she will thumb<br \/>\nover my poems, then put the book back<br \/>\nup on its shelf. She will say to herself,<br \/>\n&#8220;For that kind of money, I can get<br \/>\nmy raincoat cleaned.&#8221; And she will. <\/p>\n<p>Ted Kooser <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane (the itty bitty person passing through the metal detector) on her way to Minnesota. Today&#8217;s visit with Flo. The photo, if Diane were here, she wouldn&#8217;t let me post . Selecting A Reader First, I would have her be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/09\/05\/todays-events\/\">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-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}