{"id":150,"date":"2008-06-14T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T02:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-06-14T22:14:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T02:14:41","slug":"earthworms-and-tomato-sandwiches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/14\/earthworms-and-tomato-sandwiches\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthworms and Tomato Sandwiches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a tomato sandwich.\u00a0 Why yes, I was thinking of <em>Harriet the Spy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then I got to thinking about all the books I really enjoyed as a kid and the Ramona books started fluttering through my mind.<\/p>\n<p>About a year ago I went to Portland, Oregon to visit some friends.\u00a0 I never mentioned it to anyone, but in the back of my mind, I was always kind of peeping at the crowds and looking for Ramona Quimby.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think the Portland I saw with the Voodoo Doughnuts and was the Portland Beverly Cleary was portraying. (Though Powell&#8217;s, on the other hand&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I always had this idea that when Ramona grew up and became an architect (I always felt like she&#8217;d be an architect when she grew up) that she&#8217;d run across Henry Huggins and actually start dating him.\u00a0\u00a0 And he&#8217;d propose to her.\u00a0 And he&#8217;d do so with an earthworm ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a tomato sandwich.\u00a0 Why yes, I was thinking of Harriet the Spy. Then I got to thinking about all the books I really enjoyed as a kid and the Ramona books started fluttering through my mind. About a year ago I went to Portland, Oregon to visit some friends.\u00a0 I never mentioned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/14\/earthworms-and-tomato-sandwiches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthworms and Tomato Sandwiches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}