{"id":22472,"date":"2012-12-21T22:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/21\/the-most-and-the-least-important-event-i-witnessed\/"},"modified":"2012-12-21T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T22:28:13","slug":"the-most-and-the-least-important-event-i-witnessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/21\/the-most-and-the-least-important-event-i-witnessed\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The most and the least important event I witnessed in 2012. I\u2019m walking past a school. Two girls, maybe six years old, wearing parkas, carrying bookbags, come flying out the school door, step in front of me close enough for me to hear, and one of them leans toward the other says says, \u201cWhat if you\u2019re a serial killer? Who\u2019s going to be your friend then?\u201d I turn. The two girls are weighing this question. Having friends\u2014this is a thing they know. Everybody needs one, even the nastiest among us, but this is a toughie. They stop to mull: Who might like a serial killer? \u201cMaybe\u2026\u201d says the second girl, \u201cother serial killers?\u201d They look at each other, uncertain. (Not a big enough pool? Is that what they\u2019re thinking?) Then the first girl says, \u201cI know!\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d says the second. \u201cHow about just\u2026killers?\u201d More to choose from! They hug. Problem solved. They walk up the block holding hands. Friends are the solution to everything. This is their news. This is what they know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Gold from NPR science correspondent and storyteller extraordinaire\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/article\/2012-the-year-that-was-and-wasnt\">Robert Krulwich<\/a>. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most and the least important event I witnessed in 2012. I\u2019m walking past a school. Two girls, maybe six years old, wearing parkas, carrying bookbags, come flying out the school door, step in front of me close enough for me to hear, and one of them leans toward the other says says, \u201cWhat if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/21\/the-most-and-the-least-important-event-i-witnessed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}