{"id":3271,"date":"2018-09-26T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T12:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2018-09-26T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T12:23:22","slug":"always-a-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3271","title":{"rendered":"Always a danger&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To read a story, share a song, work through a novel that you love with kids.  They&#8217;re not going to love it the same way. <\/p>\n<p>I re-read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/03\/19\/no-more-maybe\">the story we&#8217;re taking on today<\/a> on the trolley this morning.  This line left me with tears in my eyes:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No more maybe, in other words. Because that is just what happens. One day it is maybe, and then you just know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminded me of a song I heard for the first time in junior high: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is a dream a lie if it don&#8217;t come true, or is it something worse? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lc6F47Z6PI4\">Live version here<\/a>, 1980, 00:04:26-00:04:34.   <\/p>\n<p>Note to self: Get it together, man. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To read a story, share a song, work through a novel that you love with kids. They&#8217;re not going to love it the same way. I re-read the story we&#8217;re taking on today on the trolley this morning. This line left me with tears in my eyes: No more maybe, in other words. Because that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Always a danger&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-QL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}