{"id":1879,"date":"2020-11-10T04:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T04:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenniferlangart.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2021-03-18T05:03:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:03:22","slug":"welcome-to-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniferlangart.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/10\/welcome-to-the-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1879\" class=\"elementor elementor-1879\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3e3c235 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3e3c235\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column 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leaving your star&#8230;<\/p><p>I&#8217;m alone, the silence is deafening, maybe I should put on a record.<\/p><p>Traveling for tens of thousands of years and more, if the plutonium holds out.\u00a0 This is sci-fi, I&#8217;ll figure out a way.<\/p><p>Maybe I should read a library or two to pass the time. 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