{"id":4024,"date":"2010-11-12T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-23T04:25:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:25:28","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4024","title":{"rendered":"This Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>This Boy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>knocked on the window the other day.  I went over.  He said, &#8220;Open up!&#8221;  So, I opened the window.  Over the sill, he handed me a beautiful but withered bunch of leaves.<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;What do you want me to do with this? Is this one of  your collections?&#8221;  &#8220;No,&#8221; he said, with a little giggle that showed that he thought that it was very silly that I did not know the exact function of this leaf bunch.  &#8220;Well,&#8221; I said, &#8220;what do we do with it, then?&#8221;  He said, &#8220;Here, now, you bend down and then we kiss under it &#8212; LIKE MISTLETOE!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img51061289534474.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img51061289534474.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Smoocher.  <\/p>\n<p>I never want to forget that moment&#8230;.his gap-filled baby tooth smile, the sun on his hair, those big blue eyes, his fierce and happy way of taking life by the horns.<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful Friday, y&#8217;all!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Boy knocked on the window the other day. I went over. He said, &#8220;Open up!&#8221; So, I opened the window. Over the sill, he handed me a beautiful but withered bunch of leaves. I said, &#8220;What do you want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4024\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}