{"id":8450,"date":"2014-07-28T16:12:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T16:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=8450"},"modified":"2014-07-30T03:55:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T03:55:01","slug":"from-three-to-four-he-planned-to-stand-perfectly-still-and-think-of-what-it-was-like-to-be-alive-and-to-wait-for-fern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/28\/from-three-to-four-he-planned-to-stand-perfectly-still-and-think-of-what-it-was-like-to-be-alive-and-to-wait-for-fern\/","title":{"rendered":"From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive, and to wait for Fern."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019d find something poignant when I bought a used copy of Charlotte\u2019s Web.<\/p>\n

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How about Wilbur\u2019s plan for his day?<\/p>\n

His plans for the day went something like this:<\/p>\n

Breakfast at six-thirty. \u00a0Skim milk, crusts, middlings, bits of doughnuts, wheat cakes with drops of maple syrup sticking to them, potato skins, leftover custard pudding with raisins, and bits of Shredded Wheat.<\/p>\n

Breakfast would be finished at seven.<\/p>\n

From seven to eight, Wilbur planned to have a talk with Templeton, the rat that lived under his trough. \u00a0Talking with Templeton was not the most interesting occupation in the world but it was better than nothing.<\/p>\n

From eight to nine, Wilbur planned to take a nap outdoors in the sun.<\/p>\n

From nine to eleven he planned to dig a hole, or trench, and possibly find something good to eat buried in the dirt.<\/p>\n

From eleven to twelve he planned to stand still and watch flies on the boards, watch bees in the clover, and watch swallows in the air.<\/p>\n

Twelve o\u2019clock \u2013 lunchtime. \u00a0Middlings, warm water, apple parings, meat gravy, carrot scrapings, meat scraps, stale hominy, and the wrapper off a package of cheese. \u00a0Lunch would be over at one.<\/p>\n

From one to two, WIlbur planned to sleep.<\/p>\n

From two to three, he planned to scratch itchy places by rubbing against the fence.<\/p>\n

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive, and to wait for Fern.<\/p>\n

At four would come supper. \u00a0Skim milk, provender, leftover sandwich from Lurvy\u2019s lunchbox, prune skins, a morsel fo this, a bit of that, fried potatoes, marmalade drippings, a little more of this, a little more of that, a piece of baked apple, a scrap of upsidedown cake.<\/p>\n

Wilbur had gone to sleep thinking about these plans. \u00a0He awoke at six and saw the rain, and it seemed as though he couldn\u2019t bear it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

oh helytimes:   I\u2019d find something poignant when I bought a used copy of Charlotte\u2019s Web. How about Wilbur\u2019s plan for his day? His plans for the day went something like this: Breakfast at six-thirty. \u00a0Skim milk, crusts, middlings, bits of doughnuts, wheat cakes with drops of maple syrup sticking to them, potato skins, leftover […]<\/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-8450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","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=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}