{"id":1297,"date":"2008-05-05T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T15:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1297"},"modified":"2008-05-05T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T15:05:44","slug":"native-californians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1297","title":{"rendered":"Native Californians"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Double Indemnity…<\/p>\n

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Phyllis: I’m a native Californian. Born right here in Los Angeles. <\/em><\/p>\n

Walter Neff: They say all native Californians come from Iowa. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I was born there, in California.  Not LA precisely, but Pasadena.  Raised in Maryland of all places.  Lived here ever since I was a first grader.  I really wish sometimes mom had stayed there.  But I’ve been back and I can see now how California wasn’t her land.  How on earth it became mine I really don’t know, other then somehow, someway, the land of your birth always lays claim to you.\n<\/p>\n

I wish I could go back.  I always know it’s getting bad, when I find myself heart-aching for that far away shore…and those Pacific sunsets…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Double Indemnity… Phyllis: I’m a native Californian. Born right here in Los Angeles. Walter Neff: They say all native Californians come from Iowa. I was born there, in California.  Not LA precisely, but Pasadena.  Raised in Maryland of all places.  Lived here ever since I was a first grader.  I really wish sometimes mom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","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=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}