{"id":17831,"date":"2022-03-18T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/?p=17831"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:57:59","slug":"counting-may-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/2022\/counting-may-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting, May 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Counting, May 1944\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Counting, May 1944<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAre you sure, are you really sure, how can you be so sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, I know, that\u2019s all. I just know. I\u2019m never late.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell,&nbsp;maybe you don\u2019t know this time;&nbsp; maybe you made a mistake. Maybe you didn\u2019t count right.&nbsp; Maybe. What do you think? Do you think maybe you didn\u2019t count right\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was early afternoon when they usually met. He often found time to escape before \u2018Question Period\u2019 in the House. She had packed her kids off to school after lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was one of those misty days in May, almost warm, when you knew, you just knew, spring had finally arrived. Winnipeg was like that\u2013misty and cold until the very last moment. Then spring!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know. No, I think I counted right. Maybe not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, let\u2019s wait and see\u2026 yes, let\u2019s just wait.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWill anyone have to know, except you and me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, yes, you\u2019re not thinking clearly. I think someone will have to know; it\u2019s going to be pretty obvious. I have a family. You have a family,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, what do you think you will do?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell,&nbsp;I will continue skating all summer just like I\u2019ve always done. Maybe I\u2019ll fall.&nbsp; That\u2019s it, maybe I\u2019ll fall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, we certainly can\u2019t tell anyone. Now. No one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo, we won\u2019t have to tell anyone\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, and maybe you\u2019re not sure; maybe you counted wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaybe\u2026\u2026.\u201d she said, unconvincingly.&nbsp; &#8221; I don\u2019t think so.&nbsp; I can count.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>247 words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting, May 1944 \u201cAre you sure, are you really sure, how can you be so sure.\u201d \u201cWell, I know, that\u2019s all. I just know. I\u2019m never late.\u201d \u201cWell,&nbsp;maybe you don\u2019t know this time;&nbsp; maybe you made a mistake. Maybe you didn\u2019t count right.&nbsp; Maybe. What do you think? Do you think maybe you didn\u2019t count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17838,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions\/17838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}