{"id":187,"date":"2006-09-07T07:46:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T07:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=187"},"modified":"2006-09-07T07:46:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T07:46:56","slug":"hes_thinking_ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/09\/hes_thinking_ab.html","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s thinking about Antarctica, and Texas.  I&#8217;m thinking about Life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8230;we drive for fifteen minutes and see nothing but rock and brush.  The brush looks dead; Ms. Ngyuen informs me that it comes alive in the spring.  Like Baffin Island, I imagine, <strong>the living things live their whole lives in that narrow time when conditions are favorable, and all the rest of the time they wait<\/strong>.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;as thought by the title character of <em>China Mountain Zhang <\/em>by Maureen McHugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;we drive for fifteen minutes and see nothing but rock and brush. The brush looks dead; Ms. Ngyuen informs me that it comes alive in the spring. Like Baffin Island, I imagine, the living things live their whole lives in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/09\/hes_thinking_ab.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lit_quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}