{"id":1627,"date":"2011-07-14T06:57:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2011-07-14T06:57:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:57:35","slug":"the-protectiveprovider-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2011\/07\/14\/the-protectiveprovider-type\/","title":{"rendered":"The protective\/provider type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Dad passed away, sometimes when talking to people about what I was going to do I would lightly kick the wall of the house and say, &#8220;and then there is this&#8230;&#8221; The wall would give a strong solid thud. Last night Kate and I had dinner with Matthew and Peggy. There was also as a surprise accompaniment of Trevor and Jennifer, new neighbors of theirs, who have gotten a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/news\/article\/Rural-Maine-couple-lives-in-2-shipping-containers-1432302.php\">national attention<\/a> for their container home lately. Trevor said that Matthew had mentioned I had always planned on building a container home. Being a social event, I didn&#8217;t want to turn conversation to my father&#8217;s death, so I just mentioned that life happens and I had a house now.<\/p>\n<p>A house. A castle, I thought the other day as I was looking out one of the many south facing windows overlooking the field. We were chatting with a neighbor at the beach the other day who, as a gardener, admitted to coveting that field.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is different. Every time I came home I felt a pull back here that some would try to dispel. Everything is right. So much is new and unknown and constituted of a future of challenge. I&#8217;m really happy about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Dad passed away, sometimes when talking to people about what I was going to do I would lightly kick the wall of the house and say, &#8220;and then there is this&#8230;&#8221; The wall would give a strong solid thud. Last night Kate and I had dinner with Matthew and Peggy. There was also as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}