{"id":1396,"date":"2014-07-16T23:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T03:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2014-07-16T23:11:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T03:11:44","slug":"i-wonder-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"I wonder bread.."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWhen I was a little girl\u2026 maybe 4 or 5 years old\u2026 I was at Stumps Grocery Store with my Mom.\u00a0 It was on Main Street, in Dayton, Ohio.\u00a0 We used to shop their on occasion.. but not frequently.\u00a0 It was smaller than Liberals.\u00a0 Which is where Mom really liked to go.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it was just my Mom and I.\u00a0 She was somewhere.\u00a0 And I remember looking at the rack which was set up by the Wonder Bread guy.\u00a0 All the bread on that stand was marked down.\u00a0 Day old bread.\u00a0 Stale.<\/p>\n

Just about them, some woman grabbed my arm.\u00a0 She jerked it hard and started leading me past the cash registers and to the front door.\u00a0 She was really moving me along.<\/p>\n

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I started screaming.\u00a0 Like Godzilla when the laser rocket hits him in the neck.\u00a0 I kept screaming.\u00a0 She let go of my arm.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t see where she went because I was crying so hard.\u00a0 One of the clerks came running over to me, and then Mom.<\/p>\n

I was scared.<\/p>\n

This story came to mind today.\u00a0 I wonder where I would be or what my life would have been like\u2026 If I hadn\u2019t started screaming.\u00a0 I wonder where she would have taken me\u2026 And what I would be like now.\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine the outcome would have been good.<\/p>\n

But for whatever reason, the events up to that point, and ever since then have come to this exact moment.\u00a0 When I type\u2026 once again\u2026. those ever-familiar\u2026.dot, dot, dots.<\/p>\n

Which then brings me to this.\u00a0 Maybe I thought of the story, because I am getting so stale here.\u00a0 It seems like this writing has lost its snap, its crackle and its pop.\u00a0 I am on the Wonder Bread Rack.<\/p>\n

And as\u00a0 my dear old boy Webster puts it\u2026<\/p>\n

Stale is an adjective\u2026 With a few different meanings\u2026 But all up the same dang alley.<\/p>\n

It means that a food source is no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry;\u00a0 OR\u2026 a topic is no longer new and interesting or exciting;\u00a0 OR maybe even a person\u2026 is no longer able to perform well or creatively because of having done something for too long.<\/p>\n

STALE. Like day old bread.\u00a0 In Stumps.<\/p>\n

So\u2026.maybe somebody needs to grab my arm and lead me out of here.\u00a0 This time\u2026 perhaps for the good.\u00a0 Who knows what might be ahead\u2026\u00a0 just on the other side of those grocery doors.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached its end, it has not reached its goal. A parable.\u201d\u00a0 –\u00a0 Friedrich Nietzsche <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.\u201d\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0Lao Tzu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a little girl\u2026 maybe 4 or 5 years old\u2026 I was at Stumps Grocery Store with my Mom.\u00a0 It was on Main Street, in Dayton, Ohio.\u00a0 We used to shop their on occasion.. but not frequently.\u00a0 It was smaller than Liberals.\u00a0 Which is where Mom really liked to go. At any rate, […]<\/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-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}