{"id":207,"date":"2013-11-01T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2013-11-01T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:46:40","slug":"if-you-buy-the-candy-they-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"If You Buy the Candy, They Will Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0982.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-208\" alt=\"IMG_0982\" src=\"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0982-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0982-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0982-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0982-624x835.jpg 624w, https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0982.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We live on a street that used to be called Cat&#8217;s Whisker Road, the oldest street in Kenmore. Maples line both sides of our area and form a canopy of leaves that turn flame-colored in the fall. Our sidewalks are buckled and poorly maintained. The residences are a mixture of apartment houses, homes built in the 70s, a few McMansions and a sprinkling of old cabins that date back from the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic is ridiculous. Commuters use the two lane street to get to and from Seattle, and the 35-per-hour speed limit signs are a joke. A frail older gentleman lives a couple blocks down from us, and I shudder when I see him tottering along on the narrow sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>All this to say, if\u00a0I was a kid, I wouldn&#8217;t want to trick-or-treat on this street. Just crossing the road is a challenge. Still, every year I buy a couple bags of candy, in case some brave souls come by. They don&#8217;t. Most of them head for the swankier neighborhood on the hill above us. We eat the candy instead. We are our own trick-or-treaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live on a street that used to be called Cat&#8217;s Whisker Road, the oldest street in Kenmore. Maples line both sides of our area and form a canopy of leaves that turn flame-colored in the fall. Our sidewalks are buckled and poorly maintained. The residences are a mixture of apartment houses, homes built in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phpFj8-3l","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}