{"id":1849,"date":"2008-01-22T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2008-01-22T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T03:09:00","slug":"say-hello-to-my-little-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/my-special-stupidity\/say-hello-to-my-little-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Say hello to my little friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/2211412262\/\" title=\"versa by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2209\/2211412262_c1ddc4e1fd.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"versa\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t it cute? Black with tan interior. Rockin&#8217; stereo system. Excellent visibility. Plush interior for an entry-level car. Smooth ride. Shiny as shit. (For now.) <\/p>\n<p>We need to get a room. I&#8217;ll admit it. Because we&#8217;re in love. And I can&#8217;t stop gushing. It&#8217;s embarrassing. <\/p>\n<p>And let me just tell you how stupid in love I am with this car. Actually, love has nothing to do with it. I&#8217;m just stupid. Tonight at about 9, I was headed north on Cooper, toward my apartment, when a big police Suburban flashes his lights at me and pulls me over just past Union and Cooper. <\/p>\n<p><i>Shit,<\/i> I&#8217;m thinking, <i> I was going the speed limit! WTF!!! My insurance already went up the moment I bought this! Now this?! What did I do?!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Dude asks for my driver&#8217;s license, and asks me what kind of car I&#8217;m driving. I explain, and say, &#8220;I just bought it today and I&#8217;m still learning how to use it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously,&#8221; he says, &#8220;since you were driving without any lights on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oooooh, right. I&#8217;m not used to a car that doesn&#8217;t have daylight running lamps. Thankfully, he let my idiot ass go. And from now on I promise to remember to turn on my headlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ain&#8217;t it cute? Black with tan interior. Rockin&#8217; stereo system. Excellent visibility. Plush interior for an entry-level car. Smooth ride. Shiny as shit. (For now.) We need to get a room. I&#8217;ll admit it. Because we&#8217;re in love. And I can&#8217;t stop gushing. It&#8217;s embarrassing. And let me just tell you how stupid in love I am with this car. Actually, love has nothing to do with it. I&#8217;m just stupid. Tonight at about 9,&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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-special-stupidity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-tP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","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=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}