{"id":1202,"date":"2022-09-05T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2022-09-18T09:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T17:31:05","slug":"nows-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"Now&#8217;s the time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is 10:00 p.m., more or less. I\u2019m sitting in the comfiest chair in my teacher apartment in bush Alaska, where I will be for two more weeks. In the bush, not in the chair. Although it <em>is<\/em> a pretty nice chair. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hear a sound that at first I don\u2019t recognize. But after a few repetitions it begins to resolve itself: someone is knocking on a door. It sounds to me like the person is knocking on the other door to this duplex, so I don\u2019t stir. The other door is where the principal lives, so it makes sense that the person would be looking for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The knocking continues. Maybe it is my door. I look out the window and see a young man on my porch, waving apologetically. I open the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe barge is in,\u201d he says. \u201cWe need someone to accept the fuel for the school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ponder this for a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d I say finally. \u201cI\u2019m just a substitute. The principal lives over there.\u201d I point to the other door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOK,\u201d he says. \u201cThanks. Sorry to bother you so late.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I indicate that there is no problem, he notes that we met at the softball tournament the previous weekend, I recall his name, and he moves to the other door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The knocking recommences. The principal, being new, is at first as befuddled as I was, but soon rallies while I fade discreetly back into that awesome chair. The principal\u2019s part in the saga continues, involving (among other micro-adventures) a trip to the school to use the VHF radio. The custodian was evidently asleep, but soon he is roaring past the building on his four-wheeler, bound for the barge ramp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fuel delivery, accepted and installed. Everybody can go back to bed now. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is 10:00 p.m., more or less. I\u2019m sitting in the comfiest chair in my teacher apartment in bush Alaska, where I will be for two more weeks. In the bush, not in the chair. Although it is a pretty nice chair. . . But I digress. I hear a sound that at first I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[483,484,482],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-an-alaskan-educator-and-citizen","tag-bush-teaching","tag-fuel-barge","tag-rural-alaska"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}