{"id":582,"date":"2004-06-17T20:41:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T23:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=582"},"modified":"2004-06-17T20:41:32","modified_gmt":"2004-06-17T23:41:32","slug":"the-crooked-man-and-the-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"The crooked man and the hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>here&#8217;s an old man struggling to walk on the sidewalk. Mentally challenged, I gather. Everyday he&#8217;s out walking, at the same time and at the same pace. Struggling with himself. It&#8217;s not the most pleasant sight, and I keep wondering why he&#8217;s not being taken care of. But at least he&#8217;s getting there where ever he goes.\n<\/p>\n<p>The hummingbird came back a couple of times today while I was mindlessly watching the garden. At one time, it zoomed in, turned a couple rounds, hovered and then graciously bowed over towards me, like if it just finished playing the second act of an important Broadway musical. <\/p>\n<p>Naturally, I applauded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old man struggling to walk on the sidewalk. Mentally challenged, I gather. Everyday he&#8217;s out walking, at the same time and at the same pace. Struggling with himself. It&#8217;s not the most pleasant sight, and I keep wondering &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}