{"id":3907,"date":"2010-10-19T19:43:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T23:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2010-10-19T19:43:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T23:43:54","slug":"hand-me-down-my-walking-cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3907","title":{"rendered":"Hand me down my walking cane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back to work, <\/strong>back to the regular schedule today. This is good. I’ll go no more a-roving so late into the night, at least for a while.<\/p>\n

I’m learning the uses of a cane. It’s a bloody nuisance, for the most part. It would be handy to have one of those with a hooked handle that I could hang over my arm when I need both hands, but this one (like most contemporary models) has a mostly horizontal one. Makes a better grip that way, I guess, but tucking your cane under your arm isn’t nearly as neat a move in real life as in the movies. The thing has a way of poking things, and people.
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I’ve got a link for yesterday’s stop on the Virtual Book Tour<\/strong> here <\/a>(It’s the Virginia Beach Examiner<\/i>. I get a little more print there than in the minimal treatment most of my interviews have been cut down to so far.) Today is a guest post <\/a>at a blog called Authors and Appetizers<\/i>. I’m kind of proud of this one, because I hadn’t the faintest idea what I’d write when the publicist pointed me there and told me to say something about food. I think what I finally produced isn’t half bad.
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Here’s a scene<\/strong> I expect is going to be played out soon (if it hasn’t been already) in the offices of the leadership of a major political party.<\/p>\n

Chairperson: \u201cSo we’re all agreed, we’re going to put all our influence behind the Goodness Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior Senator: \u201cWhat’s the Goodness Act?\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice Chairperson: \u201cThat’s the law that outlaws all evil, and requires everybody to be good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior Senator: \u201cIs that constitutional?\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice Chairperson: \u201cAre you saying you’re in favor of evil?\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior Senator: \u201cNo, no. I’m sure it must be constitutional. You’re right. Forget I said anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressman From Eastern State: \u201cWait a minute. I’m a Satanist. We believe in evil. Our only law is do as thou wilt. Are you trying to infringe my right to construct my own personal code of morality?\u201d<\/p>\n

Chairperson: \u201cNo, no. We’ll carve out a religious exception.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressman From Eastern State: \u201cWell, I’m still a little offended. Better fund that new highway for my state while you’re at it, and I’ll feel better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice Chairperson: \u201cNo problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressman From Western State: \u201cHey, what about me? I’ve got a large sociopathic constituency in my district. What am I gonna tell them?\u201d<\/p>\n

Chairperson: \u201cDon’t worry about it. By the time this bill is done, nobody’ll have a clue what’s in it. It’ll tie up the courts for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressman From Western State: \u201cGreat! The sociopaths and the lawyers will both love it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice Chairperson: \u201cYou’re repeating yourself. I like that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back to work, back to the regular schedule today. This is good. I’ll go no more a-roving so late into the night, at least for a while. I’m learning the uses of a cane. It’s a bloody nuisance, for the most part. It would be handy to have one of those with a hooked handle … Continue reading Hand me down my walking cane<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}