{"id":221,"date":"2009-02-13T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2009\/02\/13\/221\/"},"modified":"2014-09-10T19:15:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T00:15:52","slug":"221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"A Lonely Milepost On A Long Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/clifblvd.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>My mother is back in the hospital again, so I&#8217;m sitting around in the ICU for 6 hours a day while nothing much happens.  Healing is slow, and at my mother&#8217;s age, it&#8217;s not even certain to happen.  We&#8217;re not sure how this is going to work out, but whatever happens, this will be a memorable time in my life.  One part of the memory will be the drive home through the dark winter night.  I decided to stop near a train underpass along the route and get a shot.  It&#8217;s not much to see, although the lighting is fairly interesting.   I don&#8217;t usually drive along this road, so this underpass will probably become a &#8220;memory marker&#8221; for me.  Here&#8217;s how I&#8217;ll remember it; dark, cold, and deserted.  A lonely milepost on a long vigil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother is back in the hospital again, so I&#8217;m sitting around in the ICU for 6 hours a day while nothing much happens. Healing is slow, and at my mother&#8217;s age, it&#8217;s not even certain to happen. We&#8217;re not sure how this is going to work out, but whatever happens, this will be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4601,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}