“Please know,” Jenny said, “that we would love to have you stay here for the eclipse.”<\/p>\n
It didn’t sink in at first that this was my cousin, because I had been texting about lightning bugs with her kids. (You can never be quite sure who is on the other end of texts to her.)<\/p>\n
“Not sure. Probably not, because we’re going to use our PTO on a trip to Canada this summer.”<\/p>\n
But it was Friday, and the living was easy outside on the Chuy’s patio. So it didn’t take long to reevaluate.<\/p>\n
“Could I visit a class of yours and do The Jabberwocky<\/em>?”<\/p>\n “Are you serious!?” <\/p>\n A few minutes later, Jenny reported, “Julia and Katherine are screaming with excitement.”<\/p>\n “But do you think you can integrate it into your curriculum?” I asked.<\/p>\n “How could anyone not be able to?” she asked.<\/p>\n Days passed. A week. More.<\/p>\n “Have you given any more thought to coming in August?” she asked.<\/p>\n “I’m thinking that when I die, I’m not likely to say, I wish I had just stayed at home that August in 2017 when the lights went out in Kentucky.<\/em>“<\/p>\n “He’s coming!?” someone on the other end replied.<\/p>\n And with that, our plans were made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Please know,” Jenny said, “that we would love to have you stay here for the eclipse.” It didn’t sink in at first that this was my cousin, because I had been texting about lightning bugs with her kids. (You can never be quite sure who is on the other end of texts to her.) “Not […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761"}],"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=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4762,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}