{"id":1725,"date":"2012-09-19T01:17:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T01:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:56:06","slug":"essay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<div class=\"page-list page-list-ext \">\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/katie-lynes\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essay: Katie Lynes\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Katie-Lynes-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Essay: Katie Lynes\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/katie-lynes\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essay: Katie Lynes\">Writings \/ Essay: Katie Lynes<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Paki Lover \r\nEeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe . Like countless children before and after me, I learned this rhyme at a young age, and used it with siblings and friends to determine who was \u201cit\u201d in a game of hide-and-seek or, during sol...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/la-vonda-r-staples\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essay: La Vonda R. Staples\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/LA-Vonda-Staples-replacement-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Essay: La Vonda R. Staples\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/la-vonda-r-staples\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essay: La Vonda R. Staples\">Writings \/ Essay: La Vonda R. Staples<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Another Burden   \r\nA traveler almost always goes forth, along the way that he is forced to travel or chooses to travel, with burdens. We are accustomed to thinking of that word, \u2018burden\u2019, with pejorative connotations. To give someone a burden is to som...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1964,"parent":1724,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1725","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1725\/revisions\/1994"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}