{"id":4405,"date":"2013-04-21T05:40:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T11:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2013-04-21T08:59:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T14:59:43","slug":"421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=4405","title":{"rendered":"4:21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4:21<\/p>\n<p>It was, in every sense of the word, a tableau. The beaver and the rat poised on the precipice of action; the old and faded papers hanging perilously on the edge of the box, moments away from being scattered into a disorganized heap; Meredith outside searching, just seconds from bursting in on this oh-so-secret scene; the mayor wandering stunned through the wet, muddy streets, in danger of imminent flattening by the speeding International and its horrifying harrows; the waitress poised on the knifed edge of indecision about whether to tell her boss about the spilled Warfarin; the aged and crippled squirrel whose very life was at this moment a hair&#8217;s width from leaving our mortal realm. All of these tiny insignificant events unfolded slowly, one upon another in gossamer layers of fate and destiny as the rat and beaver\u2019s eyes met.<\/p>\n<p>And so the beaver, in a hopeless attempt to shrug off the seemingly weightless yet suffocating wrappings that seemed preordained to smother the very building blocks of his soul, stepped back and deliberately to the side, freeing a path for the rat\u2019s escape.<\/p>\n<p>And the rat, free of any destiny, left the beaver to his own fortune.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-4405\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">53.610101<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-113.644195<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4:21 It was, in every sense of the word, a tableau. The beaver and the rat poised on the precipice of action; the old and faded papers hanging perilously on the edge of the box, moments away from being scattered into a disorganized heap; Meredith outside searching, just seconds from bursting in on this oh-so-secret [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}