{"id":1038,"date":"2007-04-16T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2007-04-16T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T19:26:00","slug":"say-what-you-will-the-sky-is-a-lovely-shade-of-purple-in-my-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Say What You Will, The Sky Is A Lovely Shade of Purple In My World&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving home last Friday, following a white car that had been rear-ended on the driver&#8217;s side at some point. While cognitively, I knew it was damage, my brain immediately thought there was an elaborate sticker wrapping on the corner of the bumper, and that sticker was depicting a black &#038; white ink drawing of an anteater wearing a smoking jacket. You know, something a la <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Gorey\">Edward Gorey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/458126521\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/185\/458126521_eb31bdcd4f_o.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Sometimes a dent is just a dent.... or is it?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And you know how it is, once you get an idea in your head and you simply can&#8217;t see anything else? Well, for the remaining mile we spent together, I kept staring at that frickin&#8217; anteater, dressed in his finest, and had to get the picture. Which does not do it justice, and like my husband commented on Flickr, may in fact make you believe I am dropping acid into my coffee, but I assure you, I am not. <\/p>\n<p>Anteater. Smoking Jacket. Purple sky. Or is that&#8230;haze?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving home last Friday, following a white car that had been rear-ended on the driver&#8217;s side at some point. While cognitively, I knew it was damage, my brain immediately thought there was an elaborate sticker wrapping on the corner of the bumper, and that sticker was depicting a black &#038; white ink drawing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}