{"id":804,"date":"2004-05-17T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T07:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=804"},"modified":"2004-05-17T07:40:58","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T07:40:58","slug":"elegy-for-an-empty-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/05\/elegy-for-an-empty-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Elegy for an empty apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sid of winkie.org <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winkie.org\/oldwords\/000170.html\">reflects on his swinging beltway bachelor pad. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But when I looked at my empty bedroom before leaving the apartment for the last time I found myself tearing up a bit and feeling attached to the place (after five years I never paid more than $900 to rent this one-bedroom with hardwood floors, a fireplace, off-street parking and a 10-minute walk to Eastern Market). It&#8217;s the longest-term residence I&#8217;ve had since living on my own, and I&#8217;ll miss everything about it except the tiny kitchen with the scary stove.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll also miss the smell of Popeye&#8217;s on 8th Street when I walk to Blockbuster to rent a movie. I&#8217;ll miss the lesbian dance club that always has women hanging outside who could kick the shit out of the Marines down the street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sid of winkie.org reflects on his swinging beltway bachelor pad. But when I looked at my empty bedroom before leaving the apartment for the last time I found myself tearing up a bit and feeling attached to the place (after&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/05\/elegy-for-an-empty-apartment\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}