{"id":7,"date":"2008-06-20T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-06-27T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T20:03:24","slug":"two-days-late-and-many-dollars-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/two-days-late-and-many-dollars-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Two days late and many dollars short"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally.<\/p>\n

I caught the last boat<\/a> to Washington Island<\/a> on Tuesday night. I’m renting a house for the summer from the woman who runs the (surprisingly excellent) bookstore, Islandtime Books<\/a>, but before I left Chicago she shot me a message saying she was going off island for a few days and to just stop by the store and talk to her assistant whenever I got here. But, of course, by the time I landed the bookstore (and everything else around) was closed. No assistant in sight. It was getting dark. And it was raining.<\/p>\n

I sat in the car for a few minutes. Thinking. Think think think.<\/p>\n

And then, on a hunch, I started driving over to the north side of the island, to XXXX Road, where this mystery house was. I couldn’t find the lease with the address on it (it was buried somewhere under all the duffel bags and groceries) but I knew the house was on the market. How many houses could there be on XXXX Road with North Star Realty<\/a> signs out front? More than you’d think, actually, as there’s a fair amount of land for sale up here, but, still–I found it in a snap, pulled into the driveway, coasted down a little hill, and parked.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, it was unlocked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I spent the first night staring out at the rainy yard and hoping I was in the right place, especially as I had taken a leap of faith and gone ahead and unpacked the car. Some critters scrambled up on the deck as I was brushing my teeth and scared the shiite out of me. But they were just … raccoons? Squirrels? Deer? … and not an aggrieved islander wondering who this tired-ass lady was squatting in their house.<\/p>\n

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Finally. I caught the last boat to Washington Island on Tuesday night. I’m renting a house for the summer from the woman who runs the (surprisingly excellent) bookstore, Islandtime Books, but before I left Chicago she shot me a message saying she was going off island for a few days and to just stop by … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-washington-island"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}