{"id":1104,"date":"2015-04-12T10:50:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2015-10-13T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T14:52:57","slug":"pigeons-and-alzheimers-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Pigeons and Alzheimer&rsquo;s Out Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in the Wordjammin&rsquo; 2015 event a few weeks ago, during which independent authors share their wares, so to speak, during an afternoon of public readings.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I had great fun reading an excerpt from my short story\u00a0<em>Where Pigeons Roost<\/em> and, in homage to my grandmother, my short nonfiction piece\u00a0<em>Countdown<\/em>, which chronicles my family&rsquo;s\u00a0encounter with Alzheimer&rsquo;s Disease.<\/p>\n<p>My husband and four-year-old son were also in attendance, which made the event even more special to me.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Wordjammin&rsquo;:\u00a0http:\/\/www.wordjamm.com\/authors-bios.html.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1105\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20150315_170119575-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20150315_170119575-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"A.M. Matte reading at an ornate gold-plated lectern in a west Toronto pub.\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20150315_170119575-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20150315_170119575-1-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20150315_170119575-1.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.M. Matte reading <em>Countdown<\/em> at Wordjammin&rsquo; 2015.<br \/>Photo credit: Angela, artwalkabout -at- gmail.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in the Wordjammin&rsquo; 2015 event a few weeks ago, during which independent authors share their wares, so to speak, during an afternoon of public readings. As always, I had great fun reading an excerpt from my short story\u00a0Where<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[296,554,556,555,85,99,447,535],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-authors","tag-countdown","tag-independent","tag-pub","tag-reading","tag-toronto","tag-where-pigeons-roost","tag-wordjammin","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}