{"id":16371,"date":"2017-08-26T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=16371"},"modified":"2017-08-28T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T21:21:00","slug":"life-island-times-men-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-men-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Men Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082617-1-LIT.jpg\" alt=\"082617-1-LIT\" width=\"236\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082617-1-LIT.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082617-1-LIT-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082617-1-LIT-201x281.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Author&#8217;s note:<\/strong> After spending an entire summer season, here are an initial impression of sultry Sundays in the Hostess City.<\/p>\n<p>sun-dressed women<br \/>\nwithout men<br \/>\nin a Savannah church Sunday morning;<br \/>\ntheir men are gone or in jail<br \/>\nor insane or dead;<br \/>\none floats by in a chic and attractive frock,<br \/>\nwaiting . . . hoping<br \/>\nsliding off the edge<br \/>\nand down into darkness.<br \/>\nthe bars are empty of candidates<br \/>\nthe local fish houses the same;<br \/>\nit\u2019s a male recession, they say,<br \/>\nthe good days are<br \/>\nover.<br \/>\nyou can\u2019t tell a bad man<br \/>\nfrom a good one any more,<br \/>\nthey all look alike<br \/>\nbut these women feel the same<br \/>\nas if they were in their 20s,<br \/>\nonly a little more desperate.<\/p>\n<p>After church, they stop at the Crystal Beer Palace<br \/>\nfor lunch in Old Town<br \/>\nand wait, wait, wait,<br \/>\nthe place is full but the action<br \/>\nis listless<br \/>\nOPPORTUNITY, their dresses silently say, MEN WANTED.<\/p>\n<p>their kindling has no fire<br \/>\ntheir seas are flat<br \/>\ntheir lands are dry<br \/>\ntheir temple bells are silent<br \/>\nsun-dressed women without men<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082617-2-LIT.jpg\" alt=\"082617-2-LIT\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082617-2-LIT.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082617-2-LIT-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082617-2-LIT-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nCopyright \u00a9 2017 From My Isle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s note: After spending an entire summer season, here are an initial impression of sultry Sundays in the Hostess City. sun-dressed women without men in a Savannah church Sunday morning; their men are gone or in jail or insane or dead; one floats by in a chic and attractive frock, waiting . . . hoping [&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-16371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371","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=16371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16376,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371\/revisions\/16376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}