{"id":1531,"date":"2007-07-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2007-07-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T08:00:00","slug":"i-have-seen-the-bright-lights-of-west-memphis-and-have-lived-to-tell-the-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/bloggerrhea\/i-have-seen-the-bright-lights-of-west-memphis-and-have-lived-to-tell-the-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"I have seen the bright lights of West Memphis and have lived to tell the tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After work I hopped over the bridge and tried to reason my way toward the West Memphis Wal-Mart (not such a good strategy in retrospect, because, while you&#8217;d think we&#8217;d have evolved by now to be able to sense Wal-Mart, it just didn&#8217;t work that way for me). A smarter person would have printed out directions or at least <i>looked<\/i> at them before embarking on the road trip, but, chickens, I am not a smarter person.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, with Phil&#8217;s help, I was able to locate the damned bastion of late-night consumerism, only to find that their dress-shoe selection is even more depressing than I had imagined (I am struck with intense love for Target right now, and always, except for that brief time when I tried to boycott them over their wishy-washy birth-control policy). But I came away with a pair of pumps (ick, that feels wrong to even write) and a half-slip that will get me through my former co-worker&#8217;s funeral tomorrow (er &#8230; in eight hours), and hopefully I will be able to stow them away until the next funeral, which I hope doesn&#8217;t come for a long, long time. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to get my daily picture posted, but I&#8217;m exhausted, so I should probably wash my face, empty the trash, and go to bed. <\/p>\n<p>Two non-sequiturs to end this rambly post:<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belgianblends.com\/home.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">This shit<\/a> is awesome. <\/p>\n<p>2. Holy crap, I&#8217;ve forgotten the second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After work I hopped over the bridge and tried to reason my way toward the West Memphis Wal-Mart (not such a good strategy in retrospect, because, while you&#8217;d think we&#8217;d have evolved by now to be able to sense Wal-Mart, it just didn&#8217;t work that way for me). A smarter person would have printed out directions or at least looked at them before embarking on the road trip, but, chickens, I am not a smarter&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggerrhea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-oH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}