{"id":48,"date":"2003-05-09T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2003-05-09T11:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/2003\/05\/tree\/"},"modified":"2003-05-09T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2003-05-09T11:02:47","slug":"tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/2003\/05\/tree\/","title":{"rendered":"tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and in less than two hours, i&#8217;m headed off to NYC.  sometimes i wonder why i don&#8217;t just move there.<\/p>\n<p>amidst our many conversations over the past couple of days, i was telling cheryl how the tree in front of my house and i have conversations.  of course, it&#8217;s a very one-sided relationship (with tree), and there is never any long drawn out communications, but at least i know tree is always there.  i mostly chat with tree about the weather and how parking in the neighborhood is a pain in the ass, but sometime i like to tell her whether or not i&#8217;m having a good day.  sometimes i feel disappointed when she never replies to my questions of &#8220;how are you doing?&#8221; or &#8220;how was your day?&#8221;, but i guess that&#8217;s to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>it started when i used to smoke on a regular basis;  there would be times when i would be too lazy to walk over to the side of my house to dispose of my cigarette butts, so i would resort to flicking it into the street.  every so often i would end up hitting tree, and eventually i hit her enough times that i began to apologize to her.  and that has somehow led to me talking to her every time i pass her by.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m not sure whether tree understand me &#8211; i&#8217;d like to think she does.  maybe that&#8217;s why the birds don&#8217;t poop on my car when i park under her.<\/p>\n<p>*laugh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and in less than two hours, i&#8217;m headed off to NYC. sometimes i wonder why i don&#8217;t just move there. amidst our many conversations over the past couple of days, i was telling cheryl how the tree in front of my house and i have conversations. of course, it&#8217;s a very one-sided relationship (with tree), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}