{"id":320,"date":"2002-05-27T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2002-05-27T19:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2002-05-27T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2002-05-27T19:24:25","slug":"an-old-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"an old note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Memorial Day musing from a while back: <a href=\"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/journal\/000531.htm#update\"><u>&#8216;memorial&#8217;<\/u>, Joe: 05\/31\/00<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I think I have forgotten the entire year, 2000.&nbsp; I do not recall whether I wrote it (in handwriting) as &#8217;00,&#8217; or &#8216;2000.&#8217;&nbsp;  It seems unattached to the events which ocurred within its duration.&nbsp; The year 2000 feels like a year whose arrival I am still anticipating.&nbsp; Come to think of it, last year and this year both feel that way, too.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>A few months ago at work, where we write the date on hundreds of forms per day by hand, I wrote 10\/19\/86.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t remember the month and day when I wrote it, but that is what it looked like.&nbsp; It came as clearly and naturally as if I had been writing it all day long.&nbsp; I stared at it for an uncomfortable moment, pretending to wonder what it might mean.&nbsp;  I pretended not to be embarrassed, but I threw the page away.&nbsp; And I pretended that I am not evading life, but living it.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me but, what year is it?&nbsp;  I know it is absurd of me to ask, but I seem to have been away.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think I know this place, nor this body of mine, nor this life I apparently have lived.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Happy Memorial Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Memorial Day musing from a while back: &#8216;memorial&#8217;, Joe: 05\/31\/00.&nbsp; I think I have forgotten the entire year, 2000.&nbsp; I do not recall whether I wrote it (in handwriting) as &#8217;00,&#8217; or &#8216;2000.&#8217;&nbsp; It seems unattached to the events &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-memorial-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}