{"id":684,"date":"2005-09-06T07:01:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=684"},"modified":"2006-10-20T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T11:50:33","slug":"comforts-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/09\/06\/comforts-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Comforts of Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"goose_kristen_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/goose_kristen_sm.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"289\" \/><br \/>\nKristen and Goose<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/goose_kristen.html\">View larger image<\/a><br \/>\nJohn and Karen, Goose\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parents, invited me for dinner last night. Matt, too, but he already had plans to be with Debbie and her folks.  We enjoyed a perfect end of summer meal: corn, rice, salad with fresh tomatoes and steak from the grill. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d also grabbed a tall smoky glass with a dark band of blue from the kitchen cabinet and filled it with, ice, tonic water, a jigger of gin and perfect wedge of lime.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about many things, from school to developers, to John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Insight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gas mileage and house repair. Every once in a while I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d look at John and hint at things more political. He and I inhabit a lonely corner of left field and because he is receptive, I tend to expose my most rabid thoughts. But with Goose at the table,  the topics remained airy, such as the incoming class.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You should see this freshman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s neck,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Goose said,  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only about this wide.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He help his thumbs and forefingers together to make a circle not much large than my glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Makes you want to snap if off, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d An innocent, natural reply, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Karen had already left the table, but from above the sound of running water and clattering dishes I heard, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now why would you even think of saying that?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen and Goose View larger image John and Karen, Goose\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parents, invited me for dinner last night. Matt, too, but he already had plans to be with Debbie and her folks. We enjoyed a perfect end of summer meal: corn, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/09\/06\/comforts-of-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}