{"id":1764,"date":"2012-02-22T21:34:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2012-02-22T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:36:04","slug":"you-are-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2012\/02\/22\/you-are-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

We return now to an event from our trip to Ottawa. I’ve just about blogged myself out on that trip, but I left this one out. So here it is, out of sequence and a few weeks late.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We stood behind him in line when we were waiting to rent ice skates. He was returning his.\u00a0Sadly, he found out after a long while that he was in the wrong place to return skates. So he left us, got in a different line and started waiting from scratch.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, my skates were too small, and I had to return them. As I walked up to the return line, I saw him standing there in his white winter coat, still waiting patiently.<\/p>\n

“Are you still waiting in this line?” I asked as I walked up behind him.<\/p>\n

“Yes,” he said, rolling his eyes.<\/p>\n

We introduced ourselves.<\/p>\n

“I’m David,” I said. “We’re visiting from Texas.”<\/p>\n

“I’m Nasser,” he said. “I’m from Palestine.”<\/p>\n

We shook hands, and at that point I noticed that he was not at the end of the line but rather in the middle. In walking up behind him, I had cut in line big time.<\/p>\n

“Oh,” I said, looking at the people behind him. “I got in line at the wrong place.”<\/p>\n

“No,” he said, putting his hand on my shoulder. “You are with me. Here, step in closer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We return now to an event from our trip to Ottawa. I’ve just about blogged myself out on that trip, but I left this one out. So here it is, out of sequence and a few weeks late. We stood behind him in line when we were waiting to rent ice skates. He was returning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}