{"id":760,"date":"2010-09-08T08:11:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T16:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2010-09-14T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T16:31:30","slug":"wading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/wading\/","title":{"rendered":"Wading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Wading\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/9\/wading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd here we aren\u2019t, so quickly: I\u2019m not twenty-six and you\u2019re not sixty. I\u2019m not forty-five or eighty-three, not being hoisted onto the shoulders of anybody wading into any sea. I\u2019m not learning chess, and you\u2019re not losing your virginity. You\u2019re not stacking pebbles on gravestones; I\u2019m not being stolen from my resting mother\u2019s arms. Why didn\u2019t you lose your virginity to me? Why didn\u2019t we enter the intersection one thousandth of a second sooner, and die instead of die laughing? Everything else happened\u2014why not the things that could have?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Safran Foer\u2019s short story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2010\/06\/14\/100614fi_fiction_foer\" target=\"_blank\">Here We Aren\u2019t, So Quickly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd here we aren\u2019t, so quickly: I\u2019m not twenty-six and you\u2019re not sixty. I\u2019m not forty-five or eighty-three, not being hoisted onto the shoulders of anybody wading into any sea. I\u2019m not learning chess, and you\u2019re not losing your virginity. You\u2019re not stacking pebbles on gravestones; I\u2019m not being stolen from my resting mother\u2019s arms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pablo","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}