{"id":32946,"date":"2021-01-05T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32946"},"modified":"2021-01-05T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:50:20","slug":"early-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32946","title":{"rendered":"Early January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m working out of Diamond’s offices this week — publishing deadlines. I happened to walk through the lobby area yesterday, and what did I find?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Christmas<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Christmas tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though there’s only a small staff — less than twenty most days — on site, even though almost no one would see it, they still put up a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was gone today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might be hard to tell, but there’s a large passenger jet in the upper right quadrant of the photo below. Looks a bit like a smudge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Airplane<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I stopped at the mailbox to pick up my mail before I left for work. It was a murky morning — overcast, a light, chilly rain — and I decided to take photos of the watchtower on the far hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I heard the plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was flying quite low. I imagine it was on its descent to Harrisburg International, about twenty miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried taking a couple of pictures, but most were blurry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the mail, besides my electric bill, I had a newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Final<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There’s a free, local, weekly newspaper that comes by mail, the Community Courier<\/em>. It’s not an especially interesting<\/em> newspaper — most of the articles are about local church services — and their headline writers uses a vastly different definition of “slated” that I do. (They mean it as “scheduled.” I read it as “criticized sharply.” Thus, a headline like “Church Pot Luck Slated” reads to me like it was really<\/em> bad, while they mean it’s something coming up.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, the Christmas Week issue, which arrived a week and a half after Christmas, was the final issue. Due to COVID and various economic uncertainly, they were ceasing their publications in York County after forty-five years, while similar papers in Lancaster and Chester Counties would continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t say I’ll miss it, but it’s still something worthy a momentary twinge of sadness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least I won’t have to read about really bad church pot lucks again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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