{"id":2731,"date":"2004-06-08T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2004-06-08T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2004-06-08T22:22:13","slug":"get-a-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/08\/get-a-grip\/","title":{"rendered":"Get A Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work, talking to The Queen on the phone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Me<\/b>:  How are you getting downtown?<\/p>\n<p><b>The Queen<\/b>:  I dunno, drive, probably.  Maybe take the bus.  Do you know which bus goes there.<\/p>\n<p><b>M<\/b>:  The 37.  It leaves that Park &#038; Ride near our house and stops downtown on 4th.<\/p>\n<p><b>Q<\/b>:  Ugh &#8212; I&#8217;ll  drive.  I&#8217;ve taken the 37 before, and it&#8217;s always full of hyperactive high school kids.   I don&#8217;t really want to be surrounded by a bunch of teenage boys who don&#8217;t know how to handle themselves.<\/p>\n<p><b>M<\/b>: Yeah, kids today have forgotten all the essential skills.  Why, when I was a teenage boy I handled myself all the time.<\/p>\n<p>{dead air}<\/p>\n<p><b>M<\/b>:  Okay, well, now I kinda wish I hadn&#8217;t said that out loud at the office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work, talking to The Queen on the phone: Me: How are you getting downtown? The Queen: I dunno, drive, probably. Maybe take the bus. Do you know which bus goes there. M: The 37. It leaves that Park &#038; Ride near our house and stops downtown on 4th. Q: Ugh &#8212; I&#8217;ll drive. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","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=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}