{"id":2247,"date":"2017-11-04T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2017-11-01T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:51:18","slug":"the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">The Bridge<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Viola smiled glancing down at the small stream, the narrow, rickety bridge before looking back at her brother driving papa&#8217;s wagon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can do it Herman,&#8221; she encouraged him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you think so?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, you can.\u00a0 Just go straight,&#8221; she replied, urging him on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All right,&#8221; he said, giving the reigns a snap.<\/p>\n<p>Viola watched as the wagon moved across the bridge.\u00a0 For a second she thought he might make it across before the wagon&#8217;s right front wheel slipped and it fell off into the stream.<\/p>\n<p>Smiling, she skipped home to tell papa Herman got the wagon stuck again.<\/p>\n<p>End (based upon a true story that was told to me by my grandmother)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bridge Viola smiled glancing down at the small stream, the narrow, rickety bridge before looking back at her brother driving papa&#8217;s wagon. &#8220;You can do it Herman,&#8221; she encouraged him. &#8220;Do you think so?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah, you can.\u00a0 Just go straight,&#8221; she replied, urging him on. &#8220;All right,&#8221; he said, giving the reigns a snap. [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/?p=2247\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[3,28,80,12],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","tag-aj-marks","tag-original","tag-short","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ajscifistories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}