{"id":34,"date":"2008-09-07T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-09-07T18:56:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T22:56:49","slug":"a-brief-encounter-in-a-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Encounter in a Diner"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I didn’t dream of being a waitress at 49,” she says.
\n“What did you dream of being?” I ask.\u00c2\u00a0 And then I realize it’s entirely the wrong question, because past dreams don’t much matter, do they?\u00c2\u00a0 “What do you dream of now?”<\/p>\n

“Six weeks,” she says, “I return to San Francisco.\u00c2\u00a0 To live with my daughter.”<\/p>\n

So she dreams of bays and golden bridges.\u00c2\u00a0 Good luck to you, Karen, in San Francisco and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I didn’t dream of being a waitress at 49,” she says. “What did you dream of being?” I ask.\u00c2\u00a0 And then I realize it’s entirely […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}