{"id":9165,"date":"2009-03-17T06:59:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2013-02-10T06:55:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T11:55:26","slug":"is-it-a-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9165","title":{"rendered":"Is it a sign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, I turn left to come down my street, park the car, and go inside my apartment.  And every day, I am struck by the giant letters painted on my street.<\/p>\n<p>I try not to take them personally.<\/p>\n<p>I try not to see them as Metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>They are, after all, describing a LITERAL situation &#8230; but sometimes I look at the painted letters, and think, &#8220;Good Lord, is there no hope?  None at all?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should move.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like living on a street that <i>taunts<\/i> me.  You&#8217;re just a STREET.  What do YOU know?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2903898595_ed584e7116_b.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/2903898595_ed584e7116_b.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, I turn left to come down my street, park the car, and go inside my apartment. And every day, I am struck by the giant letters painted on my street. I try not to take them personally. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63085,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions\/63085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}