{"id":1352,"date":"2010-01-27T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:13:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:13:04","slug":"overheard-in-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Overheard in 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was flipping through old notebooks as part of a writing exercise, and came across this snippet of dialogue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>-Where has she moved to?<br \/>\n-Guatemala.<br \/>\n-Oh, what a pity. I mean, good for her, but I&#8217;ll miss seeing her around. But I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s safe?<br \/>\n-Oh, I think where she is is pretty okay. Right by the lake. And besides, what&#8217;s safe nowadays?<br \/>\n-I know! My friends say, as I plan my trips, do you want to travel? At a time like this? And I say, I&#8217;m probably safer in Italy than I am here in the states&mdash;<br \/>\n-Isn&#8217;t that true.<br \/>\n-What with these terror alerts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I probably overheard this exchange at a coffee shop. The dates on the surrounding pages suggest that it was sometime in February, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>What an unsettling decade it&#8217;s been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was flipping through old notebooks as part of a writing exercise, and came across this snippet of dialogue: -Where has she moved to? -Guatemala. -Oh, what a pity. I mean, good for her, but I&#8217;ll miss seeing her around. But I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s safe? -Oh, I think where she is is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-writing","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}