{"id":353,"date":"2007-03-12T19:21:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T19:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=353"},"modified":"2015-07-10T21:15:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:15:19","slug":"keys_without_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/keys_without_do.html","title":{"rendered":"Keys Without Doors."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The seat had been moulded to the contours of another body and it felt strange underneath him.  The key was in the ignition with a metal loop hanging from it from which depended in turn three other keys to doors he would never go through.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;from &#8220;The Quarry&#8221; by Damon Galgut.<\/p>\n<p>I really like the image of keys that open doors that he will never go through; keys that will never again be used.  Do keys with no doors (a.k.a. &#8220;purpose&#8221;) cease to be &#8220;keys&#8221; and become something else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seat had been moulded to the contours of another body and it felt strange underneath him. The key was in the ignition with a metal loop hanging from it from which depended in turn three other keys to doors &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/keys_without_do.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":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lit_quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}