{"id":121,"date":"2005-10-16T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-16T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T22:47:00","slug":"102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/102","title":{"rendered":"Our Chalkboard Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny.&nbsp; It all seemed so permanent.&nbsp; Driving through Metairie and Kenner, and friends and families neighborhoods that we use to frequent, I realize that we were living a chalkboard life.&nbsp; Then somebody came and wiped it all away.&nbsp; It&#8217;s strange being in a place I considered home for thirty-five years, and being a stranger.&nbsp; Everything feels different and alien, and somewhat surreal.&nbsp; I know that we are some of the fortunate ones, but that doesn&#8217;t make this less real.&nbsp; Now we drive around looking at what use to be, waiting till tomorrow, mostly anxious, to see what was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny.&nbsp; It all seemed so permanent.&nbsp; Driving through Metairie and Kenner, and friends and families neighborhoods that we use to frequent, I realize that we were living a chalkboard life.&nbsp; Then somebody came and wiped it all away.&nbsp; It&#8217;s strange being in a place I considered home for thirty-five years, and being a stranger.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}