{"id":12149,"date":"2015-04-04T11:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=12149"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:35:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:35:37","slug":"the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Allison New<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lake_mapourika_NZ-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"lake_mapourika_nz\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lake_mapourika_NZ-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lake_mapourika_NZ-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lake_mapourika_NZ-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lake_mapourika_NZ-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lake_mapourika_NZ-467x350.jpeg 467w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lake_mapourika_NZ.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It was their anniversary. He surprised her with a weekend trip to the lake house. He hoped a weekend away might help. He wanted her to forgive him.<\/p>\n<p>They barely spoke in the car. The silence was painful. When she did speak, the only words she could say were, \u201cI don\u2019t know if this trip is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She woke up early the next morning. She brewed coffee and got the kayaks ready for a quiet paddle around the shore.<\/p>\n<p>She tried to wake him. He was snoring. She stared into his sleeping face.<\/p>\n<p>Did she love him? Did she hate him? It was too early to decide.<\/p>\n<p>She let him sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The lake was calm and clear. The paddle sliced through the lake like a knife in butter. A light breeze lifted her hair.<\/p>\n<p>Thunk.<\/p>\n<p>The kayak jerked with violent motion.\u00a0 Panicked she began paddling to shore.<\/p>\n<p>Thunk.<\/p>\n<p>Something was under the boat. She was about to flip.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the water was still and the motion of the kayak stopped.<\/p>\n<p>She was twenty feet from the dock. She was almost there.<\/p>\n<p>Thunk.<\/p>\n<p>Splash.<\/p>\n<p>Scream.<\/p>\n<p>She flipped.<\/p>\n<p>It pulled her down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was their anniversary. He surprised her with a weekend trip to the lake house. He hoped a weekend away might help. He wanted her to forgive him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12152,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions\/12152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}