{"id":1851,"date":"2008-09-08T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T22:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2008-09-08T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:58:10","slug":"it-was-twenty-years-ago-today-part-www","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, Part XCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Thursday, September 8, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt and Shane and I had moved to the big, tumbledown house in Swede Hollow the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt quickly claimed the big upstairs bedroom. The other two were kinda&#8230;well, crummy.<\/p>\n<p>I saw that the front living room had a couple of pull-out partition doors that could be pulled out and hooked shut to become walls. I claimed that one; Shane was happy to claim the other two.<\/p>\n<p>The good news: the living room had plenty of room for me, my &#8220;desk&#8221; (an old banquet table) and a big, beautiful stained glass window and looked out on the street. The bad news? The street was a crummy little ditch lined with decrepit buildings largely full of drug dealers and lowlifes.<\/p>\n<p>Like, I guess, at this point of my life, me.<\/p>\n<p>I had a nice thick curtain, too.<\/p>\n<p>I settled in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Thursday, September 8, 1988. Wyatt and Shane and I had moved to the big, tumbledown house in Swede Hollow the previous week. Wyatt quickly claimed the big upstairs bedroom. The other two were kinda&#8230;well, crummy. I saw that the front living room had a couple of pull-out partition doors that could be pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twenty-years-ago-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}