{"id":556,"date":"2021-03-17T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albert.aribaud.net\/?p=556"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:02:51","slug":"off-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/en\/off-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Off Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This short story is the result of <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.art\/@Curator\">@Curator@mastodon.art<\/a>&lsquo;s \u00ab\u00a0challenge\u00a0\u00bb found <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.art\/@Curator\/105905671493727837\">there<\/a>. Four images, 200 words. Didn&rsquo;t know if that meant 200 words per image or 50, and I like my shorts shorts. \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Snow has been building up. Again. Over the previous layers.<\/p>\n<p>I should have gotten used to it by now, but haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the awnings have given in already, and some of the plastic bikeshed rooftops too.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday a whole house collapsed under the snow.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>So I left the village and trudged on the snow until I got to the groves, then into the forest. Less snow there \u2013 for now.<\/p>\n<p>I went on and reached the lake shore.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a house there, facing east and protected from some of the wind, so it\u2019s cold but there\u2019s no snow.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The people who lived there liked their morning sun. There\u2019s a room with big double French windows facing the lake, lots of sunlight, and heat.<\/p>\n<p>Quite warm inside.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in\u2026 weeks ? I can take my parka and sweater and shirt off. My skin feels warm and free \u2013 save the purpura.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s lemons in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>I should eat them except they\u2019ve been in the open for so long\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Anyway : In a few days\u2019 time they\u2019ll probably look more lively than I will then. I already have nausea, and dizziness is settling in.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short story is the result of @Curator@mastodon.art&lsquo;s \u00ab\u00a0challenge\u00a0\u00bb found there. Four images, 200 words. Didn&rsquo;t know if that meant 200 words per image or 50, and I like my shorts shorts. \ud83d\ude42 Snow has been building up. Again. Over the previous layers. I should have gotten used to it by now, but haven\u2019t. Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}