{"id":46790,"date":"2024-01-07T01:03:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T01:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46790"},"modified":"2024-01-07T01:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T01:03:58","slug":"retrospect-the-road-crosser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/retrospect-the-road-crosser\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrospect: the road crosser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about people and events linking back to the past: the tutor mentions someone he saw.<\/h2>\n<p>\nMy wife and I were driving to the grocery store today, down a 4-lane road. Its speed limit is only 50km\/h, but it can be busy in the daytime. Today, on a Saturday afternoon, it wasn&#8217;t busy, but not asleep, either.<\/p>\n<p>\nAbout 50m ahead of us a man on foot broke from the sidewalk and sprinted across the four lanes, resuming his walk in the same direction we were going. As we passed him a few seconds later, I noticed a cigarette in his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;They don&#8217;t make them like that anymore,&#8221; I observed to my wife.<\/p>\n<p>\nBack in the 70s or 80s such a maneuver wouldn&#8217;t have stood out; today, it really does.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about people and events linking back to the past: the tutor mentions someone he saw. My wife and I were driving to the grocery store today, down a 4-lane road. Its speed limit is only 50km\/h, but it can &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/retrospect-the-road-crosser\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrospect: the road crosser<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retrospect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46792,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46790\/revisions\/46792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}