{"id":12689,"date":"2023-12-24T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=12689"},"modified":"2023-12-24T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T19:02:59","slug":"a-little-too-quiet-around-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/12689","title":{"rendered":"A Little Too Quiet Around Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I completely forgot that today is Christmas Eve. I reckon that comes with being solitary and retired.<\/p>\n<p>I could have sworn it was middle of next week. So the plan today was to buy a few groceries this morning and sit back and wait the holiday traffic out. But my street is pretty empty of parked cars and it&#8217;s not a workday for most of the folks here I&#8217;m sure. Plus, the entire neighborhood actually pretty quiet.<\/p>\n<p>I have this horrible intuition that the main roads and jammed with last minute shoppers, and the stores are being mobbed, and I am not going anywhere until after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Spending Christmas as I usually do being a gay guy who has failed miserably at love, and because the family I&#8217;m closest to now is on the other coast, by myself. I&#8217;ll give myself a nice Christmas dinner at home and try not to drink too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I completely forgot that today is Christmas Eve. I reckon that comes with being solitary and retired. I could have sworn it was middle of next week. So the plan today was to buy a few groceries this morning and sit back and wait the holiday traffic out. But my street is pretty empty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[157,317],"class_list":["post-12689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-old-man-chronicles","tag-the-single-gay-guy-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}