{"id":781,"date":"2015-01-12T00:44:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?page_id=781"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:51:56","slug":"poor-sad-old-lucien","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/true-life\/1975-1977\/poor-sad-old-lucien\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor sad old Lucien."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-338\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Lucien_Sad_01_LO.gif\" alt=\"Lucien_Sad_01_LO\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>One day, I called on Lucien for a visit, and he invited me in. His little apartment smelled sour and stuffy, and I felt a little weird at first, but from his friendliness and warmth, I soon decided that I was safe with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He showed me some black and white pictures in an old photo album. He cried as he told me about the death of his beloved son, a fighter pilot who had died in the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>He sang part of a sentimental old song in French, and I wondered where his wife was. Maybe she had died too.<\/p>\n<p>I heard Lucien&#8217;s gravelly French-Canadian voice crack, and watched tears roll down his old cheeks. I felt embarrassed, but then I also felt a lot of sympathy for him. He really was a harmless and sweet old man who wanted to share is memories with someone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, I called on Lucien for a visit, and he invited me in. His little apartment smelled sour and stuffy, and I felt a little weird at first, but from his friendliness and warmth, I soon decided that I was safe with him. He showed me some black and white pictures in an old &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/true-life\/1975-1977\/poor-sad-old-lucien\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poor sad old Lucien.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":326,"menu_order":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781\/revisions\/782"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}