{"id":1343,"date":"2010-10-16T13:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T17:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2010-10-16T19:06:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T23:06:20","slug":"dear-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/dear-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where I&#8217;m from, on that winding stretch of Old Highway 421 between Boone and Mountain City, we lift a finger. Or rather, lift a <em>fanger<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean we help other people, thought we do that too. I&#8217;m referring to the gesture we make in our car as another car passes in the opposite direction. We lift a fanger. That is, we pick one or two fingers up off the steering wheel in a modified wave, to greet the other driver.<\/p>\n<p>Old habits die hard. I would lift a fanger at the folks traveling down my country road when I lived in Hillsborough. Often, they would wave back.<\/p>\n<p>Now I live in your neighborhood in downtown Durham, and as I walk the dogs, my impulse is still to wave. But it&#8217;s hard. Wrangling 140 pounds of pit bull, and simultaneously acknowledging my neighbors&#8217; existence is hard.<\/p>\n<p>I say all this because I want you to know that if it looks like I&#8217;m hoisting a bag of dog poop and slinging it in your direction, that&#8217;s just my attempt to be friendly. Sorry if there&#8217;s been any confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Your neighbor,<\/p>\n<p>Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where I&#8217;m from, on that winding stretch of Old Highway 421 between Boone and Mountain City, we lift a finger. Or rather, lift a fanger. I don&#8217;t mean we help other people, thought we do that too. I&#8217;m referring to the gesture we make in our car as another car passes in the opposite direction. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/dear-neighbors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Neighbors<\/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":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animules","category-the-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}