{"id":1103,"date":"2009-09-25T20:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2009-09-25T20:01:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T17:01:33","slug":"stand-up-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/stand-up-comedian","title":{"rendered":"Stand-up comedian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So often in life I feel like a stand-up comedian &#8212; for v-e-r-y s-l-o-w people. Hindsight is 20-20 and more often than not I think of a witty response when it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>Just today I was walking home from the grocery store, carrying a very heavy grocery back, feeling like my arm would fall of if I&#8217;m not quick enough. I walked by a stand offering Omega3 pills and there was a very persistent guy trying to get people to stop. He tried to get me to stop and said &#8220;please, stop for a while.&#8221; I kept walking and he kept trying. Lastly he said &#8220;there&#8217;s some omega3 for you. It&#8217;s healthy!&#8221; I walked on by.<\/p>\n<p>Just an instant later I thought of what I should&#8217;ve said in response: &#8220;So is brisk walking!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So often in life I feel like a stand-up comedian &#8212; for v-e-r-y s-l-o-w people. Hindsight is 20-20 and more often than not I think of a witty response when it&#8217;s too late. Just today I was walking home from the grocery store, carrying a very heavy grocery back, feeling like my arm would fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}