{"id":903,"date":"2014-08-24T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=903"},"modified":"2018-01-22T15:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:34:01","slug":"distraction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last weekend an old friend of my age<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> plunked his pill jar down on the brunch table<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and proclaimed, astutely, that without<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> medical science he wouldn\u2019t be there<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> to enjoy the free-range egg omelet<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and\u00a0crisped smoked bacon I served him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last night, thanks to Netflix, I took in\u00a0two<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> noirs which I would never have\u00a0been able, let<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> alone be allowed to see in the ringworm-ridden<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> movie houses of my boyhood. Planes, then,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> had propellers. They flew\u00a0just above the clouds.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Girls got\u00a0pregnant. Boys fought with their fathers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">None of this makes any difference now \u2013\u00a0neither<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> last night nor this morning.\u00a0No one uses\u00a0cash or<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> thinks of change for phones. Things that mattered<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> then stayed off-stage.\u00a0<i>I need to remember to dim<br \/>\n<\/i><i>the digital clock and make sure I haven\u2019t<br \/>\n<\/i><i>inadvertently set it for some wrong\u00a0hour<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend an old friend of my age plunked his pill jar down on the brunch table and proclaimed, astutely, that without medical science he wouldn\u2019t be there to enjoy the free-range egg omelet and\u00a0crisped smoked bacon I served him. Last night, thanks to Netflix, I took in\u00a0two noirs which I would never have\u00a0been able, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/distraction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Distraction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-903","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903\/revisions\/3354"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}