{"id":33904,"date":"2016-06-08T08:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-lets-touch\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T08:01:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:01:57","slug":"writers-weir-lets-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-lets-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Weir: Let&#8217;s touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The world is contracting and we are becoming isolated from each other<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Closed car windows<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>closed ears and eyes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>buy only at the chain store<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Forget the little guy down the street.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s open our ears and our eyes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and see who is out there<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Say \u201cHello neighbor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What can I do for you?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have the habit of saying \u201cKeep the change\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Smile at a senior<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Always remember<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are family and a village<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Seek out the small store or place less known<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For really what else is there?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terry Laskey writes: I am a professional gardener and call my business The Little Gardener. I have been a resident of Juneau for 39 years and love the city and enjoy my clients. When I\u2019m not gardening I am dancing or playing music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 To submit to Writers\u2019 Weir, email your poetry, fiction or nonfiction to managing editor Mary Catharine Martin at maryc.martin@capweek.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is contracting and we are becoming isolated from each other Closed car windows closed ears and eyes buy only at the chain store Forget the little guy down the street. Let\u2019s open our ears and our eyes and see who is out there Say \u201cHello neighbor What can I do for you?\u201d Have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33904"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}