{"id":21727,"date":"2024-10-30T19:42:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=21727"},"modified":"2024-11-01T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T14:15:04","slug":"writers-group-bike-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=21727","title":{"rendered":"Writers Group, Bike Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ron did a transfer station run to recycle five huge bags of paper!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I attended writers group and checked in at Town Hall about our property taxes, which are due on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visited the Bike Collective in North Adams. I couldn&#8217;t balance on the first bike, so they attached it to a stand. Had difficulty pedaling, right knee hurt. Great people, beyond helpful and kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Picked up our produce at Wild Soul River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hard to think about anything but the election next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prompt for today&#8217;s writing session was &#8220;It was an ordinary day until it wasn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I recall, everyone else wrote about a day that ends badly: an almost drowning, an almost hunting accident, a son becoming very ill, a terrible accident resulting in multiple surgeries, an abusive father exploding because his daughter spoke her mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever the contrarian, I wrote about a cousin-by-adoption who won a million dollars on a scratch ticket and the more or less happy dilemmas he must have faced once he recovered from the initial shock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It occurred to me that we have so many opportunities here for creativity: writing, drawing, songwriting. And that&#8217;s just a sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron did a transfer station run to recycle five huge bags of paper! I attended writers group and checked in at Town Hall about our property taxes, which are due on Friday. Visited the Bike Collective in North Adams. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=21727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21735,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions\/21735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}