{"id":358,"date":"2006-09-25T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/358"},"modified":"2006-09-25T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T17:08:37","slug":"yet-another-message-in-a-bottle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/358","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Message In A Bottle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been decades now since I saw that &quot;For Sale&quot; sign on your house.&nbsp; I can measure the years that have&nbsp;passed in all the little messages I&#8217;ve stuck in this or that random bottle, and tossed out into this ocean of time ever since.&nbsp; <em>Hello?&nbsp; Hello?&nbsp; Are you still out there&#8230;somewhere&#8230;?&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>If only I hadn&#8217;t been such a nerdy little geek.&nbsp; If only I&#8217;d had a little more courage to just be myself instead of hiding behind my cameras all the time.&nbsp; And my cartoons.&nbsp; There&#8217;s more I wanted to say.&nbsp; But mostly this: You opened up the world for me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hello?&nbsp; Hello?&nbsp; Are you still out there&#8230;somewhere&#8230;?&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>These little messages in a bottle are the only way I have of waving to you now.&nbsp; But I reckon I&#8217;ll keep tossing them in&#8230;because I can still hope one of them will find you one day.&nbsp; Because I just want to wave at you one more time.&nbsp; Because I just want to see one more smile.&nbsp; Because I have to know.&nbsp; I tossed another one in yesterday.&nbsp; If it finds you, please wave back.&nbsp; Please.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><!-- by <a xhref=\"mailto:bruce@brucegarrett.com\" mce_href=\"mailto:bruce@brucegarrett.com\">Bruce<\/a> | <a xhref=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/191\" mce_href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/191\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to Yet Another Message In A Bottle&#8230;\"><i>Link<\/i><\/a> |  --> <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=191\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been decades now since I saw that &quot;For Sale&quot; sign on your house.&nbsp; I can measure the years that have&nbsp;passed in all the little messages I&#8217;ve stuck in this or that random bottle, and tossed out into this ocean of time ever since.&nbsp; Hello?&nbsp; Hello?&nbsp; Are you still out there&#8230;somewhere&#8230;?&nbsp; If only I hadn&#8217;t [&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":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}