{"id":1919,"date":"2002-02-11T21:18:20","date_gmt":"2002-02-12T04:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2002-02-11T21:18:20","modified_gmt":"2002-02-12T04:18:20","slug":"ginger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/02\/11\/ginger\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginger"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in a bar. I hand my driver’s license to the bartender.<\/p>\n

“I dunno,” she says, scrutinizing it. “In this picture you have a full beard, and here you are clean shaven. I dunno. I’m gonna ask someone else to look at it.”<\/p>\n

She calls over a waitress, Ginger. I stand off to the side, quietly singing along with the song playing over the sound system: “I need an everlasting love. I need a friend and a lover divine…”<\/p>\n

Ginger takes one look at the licence, one look at me, and says “Oh yeah, it’s him. Same smile.”<\/p>\n

“Besides,” she adds, “the guy knows all the words to this Howard Jones song. He’s over 21.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m in a bar. I hand my driver’s license to the bartender. “I dunno,” she says, scrutinizing it. “In this picture you have a full beard, and here you are clean shaven. I dunno. I’m gonna ask someone else to look at it.” She calls over a waitress, Ginger. I stand off to the side, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}