Sign of a Return to Normalcy:\u00c2\u00a0 The self checkout line at the chain Supermarket is no longer half closed.\u00c2\u00a0 I stood there out of habit waiting, not knowing that the every other closed arrangement was kaput, and startled by the cashier saying “you now– they’re all open.”. Huh.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a weird feeling,trying to figure out — am I less than six feet from the fellow customer right now?<\/p>\n
Sign of a We’re Not There Yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I see plastered on a park bulletin a promotion for a usually annual mass bike ride. It tells me ” Remember your face mask”.\u00c2\u00a0 Bah.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I have a mildest of medical ailment in needing to breathe and seeing these do impair the process of breathing a tad but I never understood some smugsters’ claim of masks being of no (not minimal, mind you, but no — none whatsoever) impairment, so proceed with public policy according to such understanding — can go ahead and extend mask mandates for five years.\u00c2\u00a0 The issue here is simply that I cannot engage in any strenuous exercise with a mask — leave that to non strenuous.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, maybe this does equal a smaller gathering of traffic blockers. (No Naked Bike Ride Event.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sign of a Return to Normalcy:\u00c2\u00a0 The self checkout line at the chain Supermarket is no longer half closed.\u00c2\u00a0 I stood there out of habit waiting, not knowing that the every other closed arrangement was kaput, and startled by the cashier saying “you now– they’re all open.”. Huh.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a weird feeling,trying to figure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24185"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24192,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185\/revisions\/24192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}