{"id":319,"date":"2011-10-12T21:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T01:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=319"},"modified":"2011-10-18T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:29:30","slug":"snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when you wish you could blink, and thereby take a snapshot of your surroundings, your current situation.  It would never work of course, even the best picture couldn&#8217;t capture the perspective, let alone the ambiance, the sounds, the feel, of where you are.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I am content.  I am sitting in front of a chessboard playing over a game between Pal Benko and Tigran Petrosian played in 1952.  I look over and two dogs are curled up in opposite corners of the sofa, and another is on a dog bed by my side.  Richard Shindell is playing on the stereo.  It is one of those moments that I wish I could preserve forever, and pull it back whenever I need it.<\/p>\n<p>I have a glass of scotch and water on the table, and I can&#8217;t think of anything I want more than sitting here as I am now.  It&#8217;s not much, but it&#8217;s happy, and whole, and comfortable, and I wish it could last forever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when you wish you could blink, and thereby take a snapshot of your surroundings, your current situation. It would never work of course, even the best picture couldn&#8217;t capture the perspective, let alone the ambiance, the sounds, the feel, of where you are. Right now I am content. I am sitting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}