{"id":2174,"date":"2002-08-02T13:08:45","date_gmt":"2002-08-02T20:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2002-08-02T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2002-08-02T20:08:45","slug":"close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/08\/02\/close\/","title":{"rendered":"Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in an elevator with a half a dozen others.  As the doors started to close, a woman sprinted towards us yelling &#8220;wait!&#8221;  I was closest to the control panel, so I started jabbing the &#8220;Open Door&#8221; button.  But to no avail:  the doors slid shut unabated.  Our last glimpse of the woman was of her running, reaching out, desperately trying to catch the edge of the door.  I turned to the other people in the car and flashed them a &#8220;well, I tried!&#8221; smile.<\/p>\n<p>As we started moving, I glanced down and noticed that I had been pressing the &#8220;Close Door&#8221; button by mistake.  A moment later it occurred to me that everyone in the elevator had watched me frantically press the &#8220;Close Door&#8221; button as the woman had tried to board, and then grin about her failure to make it in time.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I now take the stairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in an elevator with a half a dozen others. As the doors started to close, a woman sprinted towards us yelling &#8220;wait!&#8221; I was closest to the control panel, so I started jabbing the &#8220;Open Door&#8221; button. But to no avail: the doors slid shut unabated. Our last glimpse of the woman was [&hellip;]<\/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-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","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=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}