{"id":548,"date":"2017-03-23T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2017-03-22T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T03:54:08","slug":"if-day-or-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/if-day-or-night\/","title":{"rendered":"If Day or Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A short piece I submitted to two places open to brief slices of life, but had no takers, so now it has a home right here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a nonstop bus missed by one minute in Boston, and a replacement local route that brought me through much of New England for almost seven hours, I arrived at Port Authority Bus Terminal just past 1am when the station closes and most of the terminal completely shuts down. There I was, in need of a restroom before catching the subway home. I noticed people being led downstairs on a stairway just outside the terminal but inside its doors and decided to follow.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered from a previous trip that Greyhound was down there, and that there was likely to be an open bathroom available to those awaiting late night departures out of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling relieved after I found what I sought, a woman entering paused, blocking the restroom doorway ahead of me. She was homeless, with a small pushcart at her side. She looked up at me when I said \u201cExcuse me, ma&#8217;am,\u201d but instead of clearing the path, she pointed toward something and asked me if it was one AM or PM on the clock. I told her it was 1AM, and she inquired if I knew what time the station opened in the morning. \u201cI am not sure,\u201d I answered, \u00a0\u201cbut today is Sunday, so probably a little later than yesterday.\u201d She thanked me and went inside as I made my way out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short piece I submitted to two places open to brief slices of life, but had no takers, so now it has a home right here. After a nonstop bus missed by one minute in Boston, and a replacement local route that brought me through much of New England for almost seven hours, I arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"If Day or Night - a short slice of life tale.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nVuU-8Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}