{"id":9,"date":"2003-06-24T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=9"},"modified":"2003-06-24T19:55:30","modified_gmt":"2003-06-25T03:55:30","slug":"matt-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2003\/06\/24\/matt-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I can’t do anymore.”
\n“Anymore what?”
\n“I can’t paint anymore.”
\n“Why not?”
\n“I’ve been painting for nine hours. I can’t paint anymore.”
\n“Nine hours? We got here at 8”
\n“7:30”
\n“Right. But it’s only 2:30 now.”
\nBoth of us quickly raise our hands, fingers extended. I use
\nmy left hand to count full hours.
\nMatt begins, “8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 1:30…”
\n“I say, 1:30?”
\n“He begins again and this time finishes with seven fingers.
\n“See,” says me, “seven hours and a half hour for lunch (which we didn’t take because who wants to linger over leftover sole and a ham sandwich).
\n“How about if I help you paint?”
\nAnd that did help.
\nWe both painted for another hour before Matt cleaned
\nand carried various tools back to my truck. And I have to admit,
\nno matter whose hand you are counting on, eight hours is
\na long day.
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“I can’t do anymore.” “Anymore what?” “I can’t paint anymore.” “Why not?” “I’ve been painting for nine hours. I can’t paint anymore.” “Nine hours? We got here at 8” “7:30” “Right. But it’s only 2:30 now.” Both of us quickly … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}