{"id":3546,"date":"2025-07-14T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:40:58","slug":"half-empty-half-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"Half Empty, Half Full"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Caf\u00e9 life, the terrace seats and tiny spoons
and lovers\u2019 faces in the sun. A trampy 
man demands to buy a bottle of water; 
the gar\u00e7on says we don\u2019t sell bottles; 
the bum grumbles into his half-shaven jaw:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je veux une bouteille d’eau.  <\/em>They are fighting 
as if during the Revolution \u2013 it\u2019s Bastille Day \u2013
over a bottle of poured or rented or drunk water. 
They are growling through their teeth 
as two people might seethe over how 
to say \u201chamburger.\u201d  After the old man sits,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(deadringer for “Boudu” fished out of the Seine)
he tries to ferret away his dear bottle. The gar\u00e7on\u00a0
runs to wrest the green Perrier from his grip.\u00a0
Half empty, half full, it\u2019s all the same.
Under the shade of the chestnut trees along
a boulevard in M\u00e9nimontant.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caf\u00e9 life, the terrace seats and tiny spoonsand lovers\u2019 faces in the sun. A trampy man demands to buy a bottle of water; the gar\u00e7on says we don\u2019t sell bottles; the bum grumbles into his half-shaven jaw: Je veux une bouteille d’eau.  They are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1644,1643,131,1642,293,358,15],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-20e-arrondissement","tag-cafe-life","tag-paris","tag-street-life","tag-summer","tag-tourism","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Vc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}