{"id":8738,"date":"2015-06-13T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=8738"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:26:04","slug":"a-wish-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=8738","title":{"rendered":"A Wish Come True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_6313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_6313-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"100_6313\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_6313-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_6313-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_6313.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Years ago, when I worked at the MITRE Corporation, two of my reports started courting.<\/p><p>He had a house on the Cape with a garden, and one day, she walked in with an armload of flowers.<\/p><p>That made quite an impression on me.<\/p><p>The person with the flowers was, perhaps still is petite, dark-haired, big-eyed.  The kind of person who gets armloads of flowers out of simple appreciation for her prettiness.<\/p><p>I, on the other hand, am mannish-looking, with small eyes, a broad nose, flat cheekbones, a prominent chin and a too-small mouth.  The kind of person who gets abuse from men and hateful stares, or gets called &#8220;sir&#8221; in public meetings.<\/p><p>Ron had given me some lovely flowers a few days ago, and I coddled them along for as long as I could, but today I had to send them to compost.<\/p><p>Ron sighed a bit about that, he loves flowers and growing things generally, so I promised to make an arrangement from our garden.<\/p><p>This is the result.  An armload of cut flowers.  From my garden.  On the Cape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, when I worked at the MITRE Corporation, two of my reports started courting.He had a house on the Cape with a garden, and one day, she walked in with an armload of flowers.That made quite an impression on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=8738\">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-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","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=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8742,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions\/8742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}