{"id":3949,"date":"2021-05-01T08:36:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T08:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:26:38","slug":"tales-from-the-town-3-the-new-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2021\/05\/01\/tales-from-the-town-3-the-new-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #3: The New Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/the-new-boy-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/the-new-boy-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/the-new-boy-small.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/the-new-boy-small-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMum! Mum! You\u2019ll never guess what!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a new boy at school!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s so tall!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd mysterious!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s called Timothy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis mum\u2019s a weightlifter!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis dad breeds cats!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cat, who had been asleep until now on her second favourite shelf, slowly opened her eyes at the sound of her name, and then just as slowly closed them again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe used to go to a different school!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now he goes to ours!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been everywhere!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd done everything!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe once drove a real car!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe once flew in a hot air balloon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been to Antarctica!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been to <em>Mars<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, doesn\u2019t he sound nice,\u201d Agnes said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s so nice!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s amazing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s so tall!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s our new best friend!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But by Wednesday he wasn\u2019t new anymore, and after the weekend they never spoke of him again.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written on April 30th, 2021<\/em><br \/>\n2. <em>Hopefully there&#8217;ll be one of these every week from now on but who knows<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMum! Mum! You\u2019ll never guess what!\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s a new boy at school!\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s so tall!\u201d \u201cAnd mysterious! \u201cHe\u2019s called Timothy!\u201d \u201cHis mum\u2019s a weightlifter!\u201d \u201cHis dad breeds cats!\u201d The cat, who had been asleep until now on her second favourite shelf, slowly opened her eyes at the sound of her name, and then just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1192,33,1214,1209],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-a-cast-of-characters","tag-cats","tag-new-boys","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}