{"id":540,"date":"2009-05-22T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T22:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/540"},"modified":"2009-07-29T23:17:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T06:17:42","slug":"werner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/werner\/","title":{"rendered":"Werner"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve met several of Ashley’s friendly neighbors <\/em>while staying here. I’ve talked gardening with Linda and her partner Sara from next door. Another dropped by with her kids, bearing cookies, to introduce herself. Was delighted to learn they have a girl Kennedy’s age.<\/p>\n

\"BlahOne neighber, in particular, is very nice and helpful, but a bit odd… an older German man named Werner who Kennedy asked one day “why do you talk and talk?<\/em>”<\/p>\n

He DOES <\/em>talk and talk…. and talk…. and talk<\/strong>…. The other day my mom stopped by to visit and he kept her verbally captive for quite some time. He tried to convince her he’d met her the day before (it was me he’d met… ) <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0When I came out of the house she said, “No, I’m HER mother… you met HER.”<\/p>\n

It was sprinkling and I gleefully cried out – “Oh, it’s raining just for me – I miss Seattle.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

He looked at me and said, “It’s good we’re all different – good to have different kinds of people<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

I assumed (and I imagine you will too)<\/em> that he was going to launch into a verbal essay about how some people like warmth <\/em>and sun, and some like rain and cooler temps, etc…. but no. No, that’s not what he said<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Instead, what came out of his mouth was this….<\/p>\n

“Yes, some people are big (as he held his hands out kind of wide… and I can only assume he was referring to me)<\/em>, some are smaller (as he moved his hands in a little closer… referring to my mother???)<\/em> and some are even smaller still…. I like them all. It’s good to be different.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

My mom and I exchanged perplexed looks and I couldn’t decide whether to burst out laughing or punch him in the mouth.\u00c2\u00a0 I opted for standing there dumbfounded,<\/em>followed by a quick escape to the back yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve met several of Ashley’s friendly neighbors while staying here. I’ve talked gardening with Linda and her partner Sara from next door. Another dropped by with her kids, bearing cookies, to introduce herself. Was delighted to learn they have a girl Kennedy’s age. One neighber, in particular, is very nice and helpful, but a bit … Continue reading Werner<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}