{"id":39,"date":"2011-07-19T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-07-19T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T14:03:28","slug":"in-the-early-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"In the Early Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>In the early evening\r\nof this small, mid-western town\r\nall faces hurry homeward\r\nall eyes turned toward the ground.\r\n\r\nThere are no sounds of laughter\r\nor cheerful voices to neighbors greet\r\nonly silent, fearful glances\r\nand the sounds of busy feet.\r\n\r\nThe silence goes unbroken\r\nas do the unspoken laws;\r\nthe travelers never touching\r\nnor stopping without cause.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s a sea of loneliness\r\nheading for each private bay\r\nwhere isolation will protect them\r\n\u2018till they need emerge \u2013 for another day.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early evening of this small, mid-western town all faces hurry homeward all eyes turned toward the ground. There are no sounds of laughter or cheerful voices to neighbors greet only silent, fearful glances and the sounds of busy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/?p=39\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}