{"id":8276,"date":"2011-05-30T09:29:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T16:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2011-05-30T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T16:29:52","slug":"two-instances-of-remarks-and-non-remarks-to-people-one-barely-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/05\/30\/two-instances-of-remarks-and-non-remarks-to-people-one-barely-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"Two instances of remarks and non remarks to people one barely knows."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking behind two women, late 20s or early 30s.\u00c2\u00a0 I kind of knew one of them, barely, who spoke these words &#8220;God.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to have sex right now.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 That is, I suppose, good news for her boyfriend in short order &#8212; or maybe bad news? &#8212; but I had half a mind to make an utterance along the lines of &#8220;All right.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s go.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 But I of course didn&#8217;t, because I only barely knew her and wouldn&#8217;t have gotten away with that surprised joke.<\/p>\n<p>I was at a grocery store, and departed from the store clerk when he gave me, &#8220;Have a good day, Justin.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I was surprised, and looked over.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know him &#8212; I assume he knew me from sometime or other in some point in the past (or present).\u00c2\u00a0 In this particular case, it would&#8217;ve been a good idea to say that a few second earlier to give me a probing chance of scratching my itch of curiosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking behind two women, late 20s or early 30s.\u00c2\u00a0 I kind of knew one of them, barely, who spoke these words &#8220;God.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to have sex right now.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 That is, I suppose, good news for her boyfriend in short order &#8212; or maybe bad news? &#8212; but I had half a mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8277,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions\/8277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}