{"id":3624,"date":"2008-07-07T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2008-07-07T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:41:42","slug":"going-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/07\/going-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conversation with a friend, as we walk to the elevators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Friend<\/b>:  So, what are you up to this weekend?<\/p>\n<p><b>Me<\/b>:  Saturday we are going to the Chihuly museum.<\/p>\n<p><b>Friend<\/b>:  Oh, you know it&#8217;s not just Chihuly, right?  It&#8217;s devoted to <a href='http:\/\/www.museumofglass.org\/'>glass<\/a> in general.<\/p>\n<p><b>Me<\/b>:  No, I hadn&#8217;t realized.<\/p>\n<p><b>Friend<\/b>:  Yeah, they even have a glass blowing room, where you can see people making art and stuff.<\/p>\n<p><b>Me<\/b>:  Cool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point the elevator arrives containing two people.  We enter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Friend<\/b>:  The last time I went they were blowing a squirrel.<\/p>\n<p><b>Me<\/b>:  A squirrel?<\/p>\n<p><b>Friend<\/b>:  Yeah, it was like this three-foot high squirrel, and there were two or three people blowing it.  Like, taking turns.<\/p>\n<p><b>Me<\/b>:  That&#8217;s kind of strange.<\/p>\n<p><b>Friend<\/b>:  Not at all what I was expecting to see, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We arrive at the next floor.  The two other people exit looking perplexed and creeped out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversation with a friend, as we walk to the elevators: Friend: So, what are you up to this weekend? Me: Saturday we are going to the Chihuly museum. Friend: Oh, you know it&#8217;s not just Chihuly, right? It&#8217;s devoted to glass in general. Me: No, I hadn&#8217;t realized. Friend: Yeah, they even have a glass [&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-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","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=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}