{"id":8380,"date":"2018-09-16T01:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2018-09-16T04:32:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T09:32:47","slug":"nearly-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8380","title":{"rendered":"nearly missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting at the coffeehouse this evening, fully engrossed in my book, when the mosquitoes started making their presence known. 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