{"id":16888,"date":"2020-05-30T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=16888"},"modified":"2020-05-30T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T19:10:29","slug":"for-when-i-tried-to-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/for-when-i-tried-to-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"for when i tried to jump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>from paul ford&#8217;s very awesome newsletter, <a href=\"https:\/\/ftrain.substack.com\/p\/lunar-new-year-pictures-from-my-phone\">&#8220;I&#8217;m Absolutely Going to Bail on This in a Month&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Further along the span of the [Manhattan] bridge I saw a bouquet of flowers, left against the railing. Usually these are memorials and I hurry past.  Ghost bikes, memorials, plaques, and murals\u2014if you\u2019re not cautious the entire city becomes a graveyard. But then I saw this bouquet had a letter on top, addressed to, \u201cFor when I tried to jump.\u201d The air went  out of me. But soon joy rushed back in. <br><br>Celebrate with me, just a moment, something good and alive that we may never understand, one  decision out of seven billion\u2014this stranger leaving the flowers, then walking away from their envelope, hands empty, as light as the wind off  the river.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from paul ford&#8217;s very awesome newsletter, &#8220;I&#8217;m Absolutely Going to Bail on This in a Month&#8221;: Further along the span of the [Manhattan] bridge I saw a bouquet of flowers, left against the railing. Usually these are memorials and I hurry past. Ghost bikes, memorials, plaques, and murals\u2014if you\u2019re not cautious the entire city becomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16896,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888\/revisions\/16896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}