{"id":5552,"date":"2019-07-18T10:09:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:15:27","slug":"the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/hope\/the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"The Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5563\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CottyJack-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5563\" class=\"wp-image-5563 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CottyJack-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"708\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cotty and Jack O&#8217;Brien, my grandparents<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, I met up for lemonade in Bryant Park with a friend I last saw in graduate school, decades ago. Yesterday, I introduced two of my friends to each other and learned one had a postcard which she\u2019d kept on her fridge for eight years, a postcard that happened to be designed by the other. A friend of mine, away for the year on sabbatical, became a grandmother nine days ago and sent me a picture of the new baby. When I was in Minnesota over the Fourth of July, I joined 50 other O\u2019Brien relatives I rarely see, swapped stories, and perused photos and artifacts of our common ancestors. We danced and laughed like we&#8217;d never been apart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_4043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_4043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>These threads of connection across distance and time converge in a web of nostalgia and curiosity. How can we have changed so much (on the outside) and so little? How can I have so much in common with a friend or a cousin I\u2019ve basically just met? I don\u2019t need string theory or other dimensions to understand I\u2019m already living parallel lives. I meet myself, other versions of myself, every day, and I&#8217;m astonished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I met up for lemonade in Bryant Park with a friend I last saw in graduate school, decades ago. Yesterday, I introduced two of my friends to each other and learned one had a postcard which she\u2019d kept on her fridge for eight years, a postcard that happened to be designed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5569,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}