{"id":10763,"date":"2006-12-10T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/10\/phone-calls\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T03:31:17","slug":"phone-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/10\/phone-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught up with three old friends that I lost touch with over the past year today; it&#8217;s funny how easily months without news from them slipped by, unnoticed and unmarked. Then we connected and it was old times again.<\/p>\n<p>A more interesting corollary to the reach-out-and-just-say-hi vignette was that I only called two of them. While on the phone with the second, a third friend, who I hadn&#8217;t thought about phoning today, yet missed, suddenly returned a message left in August.<br \/>\nIf I believed in such phenomena I might consider that sudden callback a coincidence, but I don&#8217;t. Nearly everything happens for a reason&#8211;in fiction and in life.<\/p>\n<p>Two more scenes wrote themselves. Several occasions I wondered why that happened again. Why for once instead of scrapping around like a dog for ideas or plot points, the problem was keeping pace with the stream hitting the page. But I banished those thoughts quickly, right as they surfaced. The less energy invested in questions without any answers&#8211;at least revelations I&#8217;m perhaps not ready for&#8211;the better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m letting this wave carry me until she breaks against the sandy shoal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught up with three old friends that I lost touch with over the past year today; it&#8217;s funny how easily months without news from them slipped by, unnoticed and unmarked. Then we connected and it was old times again. A more interesting corollary to the reach-out-and-just-say-hi vignette was that I only called two of them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}