{"id":776,"date":"2020-06-30T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/?p=776"},"modified":"2021-05-01T01:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T01:06:43","slug":"the-stars-of-quaintness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/the-stars-of-quaintness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stars of Quaintness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was I seeing stars? Or just the future? My first time in \u201cla cave\u201d was in 2007, and the vintner (the uncle of a friend) asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s the year of your birth?\u201d I told him after some pause, unsure of why he had asked. To this day, I have no idea why he opened that moldy bottle for us. I had no idea what Chinon should taste like or what I should say. It was one of those experiences you just have to photograph because otherwise you\u2019ll look back and wonder if it was all just a dream. I know it wasn\u2019t. 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