{"id":510,"date":"2007-03-19T08:52:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T08:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/03\/19\/legends-from-my-childhood-3\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T08:52:29","slug":"legends-from-my-childhood-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/03\/19\/legends-from-my-childhood-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends from My Childhood, #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At age 12 he was like me.<br \/>\nTall for his age. Uncooperative hair.<br \/>\nI moved away and he sent letters:<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m growing up! I&#8217;m kicking ass! I&#8217;m dating girls!&#8221;<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t believe it.<br \/>\nFive years later, I was back in town for a visit. His mom was gone.<br \/>\nCopies of <i>High Times<\/i> magazine spun out over the glass coffee table.<br \/>\nAnd it was true &#8212; he was a ladies&#8217; man. Muscled. Martial arts master.<br \/>\n&#8220;Where did you come from?&#8221;<br \/>\nWe went out that afternoon and drank vodka in the daylight.<br \/>\nHe showed me some kung fu moves in a completely non-threatening way.<br \/>\nLater I met up with friends of my parents<br \/>\nand tried to pretend I was sober over<br \/>\nlasagna and Seven Up.<br \/>\nWas he still good at math? I have to assume<br \/>\nhe was still good at math.<br \/>\n****<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/CV_legend3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Legend Number 3\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Legends from My Childhood, #3<\/b>, card art by Whitney F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At age 12 he was like me. Tall for his age. Uncooperative hair. I moved away and he sent letters: &#8220;I&#8217;m growing up! I&#8217;m kicking ass! I&#8217;m dating girls!&#8221; I didn&#8217;t believe it. Five years later, I was back in town for a visit. His mom was gone. Copies of High Times magazine spun out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legends-from-my-childhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}