{"id":3116,"date":"2011-11-15T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T18:41:47","slug":"the-manatees-of-tenth-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/the-manatees-of-tenth-of-december\/","title":{"rendered":"poor little guy. a person was just some meat on a frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2011\/10\/31\/111031fi_fiction_saunders#ixzz1dnfQY6B0\" target=\"_blank\">read it all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Allen was close to the end, Eber had done a presentation at  school on the manatee. Got an A from Sister Eustace. Who could be quite  tough. She was missing two fingers on her right hand from a lawnmower  incident and sometimes used that hand to scare a kid silent.<\/p>\n<p>He hadn\u2019t thought of this in years.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d put that hand on his shoulder not to scare him but as a form of praise. <em>That  was just terrific. Everyone should take their work as seriously as  Donald here. Donald, I hope you\u2019ll go home and share this with your  parents. <\/em>He\u2019d gone home and shared it with Mom. Who suggested he share it with Allen. Who, on that day, had been more Allen than <small>THAT<\/small>. And Allen\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Ha, wow, Allen. There was a man.<\/p>\n<p>Tears sprang into his eyes as he sat by the woodstove.<\/p>\n<p>Allen  had\u2014Allen had said it was great. Asked a few questions. About the  manatee. What did they eat again? Did he think they could effectively  communicate with one another? What a trial that must have been! In his  condition. Forty minutes on the manatee? Including a poem Eber had  composed? A sonnet? On the manatee?<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d felt so happy to have Allen back.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be like him, he thought. I\u2019ll try to be like him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>read it all: When Allen was close to the end, Eber had done a presentation at school on the manatee. Got an A from Sister Eustace. Who could be quite tough. She was missing two fingers on her right hand from a lawnmower incident and sometimes used that hand to scare a kid silent. He [&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-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","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=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}