{"id":415,"date":"2012-02-07T22:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/?p=415"},"modified":"2012-02-07T22:52:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:52:47","slug":"on-upsetting-the-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/2012\/02\/07\/on-upsetting-the-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"On Upsetting The Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the electrician was pulling the conduit wire stuff from the fuse box up through the drop ceiling in the basement, I took the opportunity to look around the space between the drop ceiling and the floorboards. There wasn't anything up there. Except for an envelope of some sort.<\/p>\n

The next day I got Jen and Michael and we went to work dragging, pushing and prodding the envelope to a spot where we could pull it down from the space above the drop ceiling. While we sat there we all speculated what could be in the envelope. A stack of $100 bills. A will. Something very valuable. Some kind of secret. We finally grabbed the envelope and pulled it down.<\/p>\n

The way the package was bundled made it clear it was something very important. It was thick, carefully taped and meticulously sealed. We took it outside.<\/p>\n

\"Kawama,<\/p>\n

We carefully cut away the tape and opened the package. Inside, it was like Al Capone's Vault, just a single scrap of paper:<\/p>\n

\"Kawama,<\/p>\n

If I'm correct, it's a scrap of a publication called La Palabra Diaria<\/a>, published by Unity Worldwide Ministries in Unity Village, Missouri (64065-0001). And . . . that's it.<\/p>\n

I can't figure out if this is some kind of superstition or something. If it is, it's kind of, I don't know, underwhelming.<\/p>\n

I still have the scrap of paper, though we did not return it to its hiding place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the electrician was pulling the conduit wire stuff from the fuse box up through the drop ceiling in the basement, I took the opportunity to look around the space between the drop ceiling and the floorboards. There wasn't anything up there. Except for an envelope of some sort. The next day I got Jen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[436,602,603],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-cult-of-domesticity","tag-kawama","tag-possibly-superstitious","tag-when-geraldo-ruled-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}