{"id":199,"date":"2006-01-24T22:58:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T03:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2007-11-10T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T18:34:55","slug":"memory-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Memory fragment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was driving to the health food store &#8212; dark, cold drizzle, damp and raw &#8212; and I had a sudden flash of incredibly vivid memory:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;driving from our house on Manila Avenue in Oakland, up Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, shaded by palm trees, past the bright open buildings, early morning sun washing everything with that characteristic pellucid northern California glow&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I shook my head and said to myself: Why did I think of <em>that?<\/em> I rarely took that route to work; I usually drove up through the Berkeley hills. And why remember a fairly trivial part of my commute at all?<\/p>\n<p>I tried to remember the rest of that drive up Telegraph Avenue, but my thoughts moved on before I could&#8230; I guess it was just one tiny fragment of memory dropping into awareness at an odd moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was driving to the health food store &#8212; dark, cold drizzle, damp and raw &#8212; and I had a sudden flash of incredibly vivid memory: &#8230;driving from our house on Manila Avenue in Oakland, up Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, shaded by palm trees, past the bright open buildings, early morning sun washing everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","tag-berkeley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}