{"id":1768,"date":"2006-03-02T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/03\/02\/i-miss-my-ghost\/"},"modified":"2006-03-02T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T16:01:00","slug":"i-miss-my-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/03\/02\/i-miss-my-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"I miss my ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cilest\/104116062\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/19\/104116062_3b4c28b0c0_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cilest\/104116062\/\">Mummy, where do all the bikes come from?<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/cilest\/\">Cilest<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>My monthly bus-pass ran out yesterday, so I mostly got home on the back of a strangers bike. I&#8217;d never ridden on the back of a bike before. It was fun, though it feels precarious. Stopping was an adventure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going a long way still, mind if I catch a bit of a lift?&#8221; When he&#8217;d stopped at the light next to me, I saw he had foot-pegs on his back tires. He grinned when I asked, pleased to get such an oddball request. He gave me a ride to Main Street. I told him children&#8217;s stories for my fare, &#8220;and then the prince took out his cleaning supplies and began to scrub away the ashes&#8221;, leaning over his back in my long inappropriate coat and top-hat, my hands slipping a bit on his jacket. He pedaled away laughing. <\/p>\n<p>It only occurred to me about a block later that we didn&#8217;t exchange names. Sometimes, I am too stupid to be brilliant. That&#8217;s two strangers in a row who&#8217;re probably going to be telling stories of That Weird Girl They Met. (I hope I get my book back. He said it would take him a week to read.)<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredoviola.com\/motion.html\">Fredo Viola has new video up<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomaintorrents.com\/\">Public Domain Film Torrents<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogfiles.wfmu.org\/KF\/2006\/02\/marimba_ponies.mpg\">Marimba Ponies<\/a>. <i>thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/wicked-wish.livejournal.com\/\">Cherie<\/a>, happy wedding.)<\/i><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mummy, where do all the bikes come from? Originally uploaded by Cilest. My monthly bus-pass ran out yesterday, so I mostly got home on the back of a strangers bike. I&#8217;d never ridden on the back of a bike before. It was fun, though it feels precarious. Stopping was an adventure. &#8220;I&#8217;m going a long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/03\/02\/i-miss-my-ghost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I miss my ghost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,606,49,14,168],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-fredo-viola","tag-links","tag-vancouver","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}