{"id":243,"date":"2007-03-03T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knitupload.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/03\/an-echo-of-childhood\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T01:11:00","slug":"an-echo-of-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"An echo of childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve been lax about posting eye candy on Fridays of late, but today I have a good reason &#8212; I&#8217;m a bit in shock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?q=Enterprise,+Al&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=map&amp;ct=title\">Enterprise<\/a> is a blip on the map of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Boll_weevil_monument.jpg\">Boll Weevil Monument<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s where I spent a good portion of my childhood while my father was stationed at Fort Rucker. I went to Rucker Boulevard Elementary on Regency Dr., and we lived not a block down the street on Antler Dr.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t always look fondly on the time we lived there. There was blantent bigotry. There were too many peanuts. And my elementary school still had corporal punishment&#8230; the one black kid in my class was spanked at least once a week.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the town where I learned my fear of tornados has been <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2007\/03\/01\/national\/a153656S61.DTL\">ripped open by one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s anyone still living there that I may have known as a child. But the town and the people are in my thoughts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve been lax about posting eye candy on Fridays of late, but today I have a good reason &#8212; I&#8217;m a bit in shock. Enterprise is a blip on the map of Alabama. It&#8217;s the home of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=243\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}