{"id":165,"date":"2001-09-22T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2001-09-23T01:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-08-14T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:07:59","slug":"still-standing-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2001\/09\/22\/still-standing-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Still standing (still)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>you said los angeles wouldn&#8217;t be standing come morning, but look, here we are, still standing, smog, sunshine and silver lake. i drove up the west side of the reservoir and everyone was up and about <a href=\"javascript:alert('ok, maybe not *that* early. it was well past 11.');\" title=\"footnote\">so early<\/a> in the morning. there was a father trying to block the view of his son peeing against the hill, a man walking with his wife and child waving at me to <a href=\"javascript:alert('i was only going 40.');\" title=\"footnote\">slow down<\/a>, children collecting donations instead of selling lemonade at the corner. it was like a video game; i kept wondering who i would see after one more bend in the road.<\/p>\n<p>we had breakfast at algermacs, which is, according to eric, Where Old People Go to Eat. they serve unmelted slices of american cheese on top of your omelettes and endless cups of good-bad diner coffee. there is a section hidden behind the restrooms that smells like everyone&#8217;s grandparents&#8217; house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;where does the name &#8216;algermac&#8217; come from?&#8221; <!-- asked stella --><br \/>\n&#8220;it&#8217;s a term from the old days: he&#8217;s such an algermacdaddy.&#8221; <!-- said eric--><br \/>\n&#8220;it reminds me of algae.&#8221;<!-- said drea --><br \/>\n&#8220;flowers for algermac.&#8221;<!-- said i --><\/p>\n<p>the week, i&#8217;ve been having long talks, watching jackie chan movies and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20things.org\" title=\"i made 20 things\">making art<\/a>, and it has been so good. my soul was glad to make room for more comfort and laughter and less fear and tears. i just need to resist the temptation to feel guilty for living, because this is when it most counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you said los angeles wouldn&#8217;t be standing come morning, but look, here we are, still standing, smog, sunshine and silver lake. i drove up the west side of the reservoir and everyone was up and about so early in the morning. there was a father trying to block the view of his son peeing against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}