{"id":7993,"date":"2016-10-30T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7993"},"modified":"2016-10-30T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:02:24","slug":"35-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/35-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"35 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7994\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2016\/10\/MR-mjh-01-84-Landmark-Shopping-Center-photo-machine-635x640.jpg\" alt=\"mjh &amp; MR in Landmark Shopping Center photo machine, Alexandria, VA, January 1984\" width=\"635\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2016\/10\/MR-mjh-01-84-Landmark-Shopping-Center-photo-machine-635x640.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2016\/10\/MR-mjh-01-84-Landmark-Shopping-Center-photo-machine-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2016\/10\/MR-mjh-01-84-Landmark-Shopping-Center-photo-machine-768x774.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2016\/10\/MR-mjh-01-84-Landmark-Shopping-Center-photo-machine.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">mjh &amp; MR in Landmark Shopping Center photo machine, Alexandria, VA, January 1984<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Friday night, Halloween weekend, 1981, Robert Coontz brought someone new home for dinner. I stood in the living room to meet her and she walked around the far side of the coffee table, nose in the air. She wasn\u2019t avoiding me (she said), just sniffing her surroundings, having been a dog in a former life. That was my introduction to <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/10BSF68\" title=\"The Catalyst\">Merri Rudd<\/a>, my belov\u00e9d-to-be.<\/p>\n<p>[photo: mjh &amp; MR in Landmark Shopping Center photo machine, Alexandria, VA, January 1984.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night, Halloween weekend, 1981, Robert Coontz brought someone new home for dinner. I stood in the living room to meet her and she walked around the far side of the coffee table, nose in the air. She wasn\u2019t avoiding me (she said), just sniffing her surroundings, having been a dog in a former life. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/35-years-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">35 Years Ago<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7996,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions\/7996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}