{"id":14451,"date":"2016-11-03T18:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T18:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=14451"},"modified":"2016-11-03T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T18:17:08","slug":"life-and-island-times-the-unoffendables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-and-island-times-the-unoffendables\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and Island Times: The Unoffendables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marlow&#8217;s Coastal Empire<\/p>\n<p>they enter<br \/>\nsit down<br \/>\nprepared to argue<br \/>\ntalk<br \/>\ntalk<br \/>\ntalk<br \/>\nmove their arms<br \/>\njab their fingers<\/p>\n<p>they knock on doors<br \/>\nring our phones<br \/>\njam our mail boxes<br \/>\ninfest our TVs<br \/>\nlike people<br \/>\nwith nothing to do<\/p>\n<p>when they talk<br \/>\ntheir desperation for approval<br \/>\nis without anguish or worry like someone<br \/>\nafflicted with a nervous tic and<br \/>\nnothing to do<\/p>\n<p>most times I tell them<br \/>\nto leave<br \/>\nand they do<br \/>\nI don\u2019t feel guilty<br \/>\nfor misunderstanding their wisdom<br \/>\n\u2018tis impossible to offend<br \/>\nthe unoffendables<\/p>\n<p>they return<br \/>\nthey always do<br \/>\nsit down<br \/>\nprepared to argue<br \/>\ntalk<br \/>\ntalk<br \/>\ntalk<br \/>\nmove their arms<br \/>\njab their fingers<\/p>\n<p>but I know<br \/>\nthat I am not the only one<br \/>\nwho has suffered them<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110316-1.jpg\" alt=\"110316-1\" width=\"461\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110316-1.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110316-1-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2016 From My Isle Seat<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlow&#8217;s Coastal Empire they enter sit down prepared to argue talk talk talk move their arms jab their fingers they knock on doors ring our phones jam our mail boxes infest our TVs like people with nothing to do when they talk their desperation for approval is without anguish or worry like someone afflicted with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14455,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions\/14455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}