{"id":9083,"date":"2011-03-08T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2011-03-14T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:43:00","slug":"scared-straights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/scared-straights\/","title":{"rendered":"Scared Straights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes make other people uncomfortable, and by <em>uncomfortable<\/em>, I mean I <em>creep them the hell out<\/em>.  I don&#8217;t know why, but I suspect it&#8217;s because of incidents like this:<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m watching my child play with the train set in the church-run preschool corridor when one little boy tells one of the teachers\/attendants about his twin brother&#8217;s cast for his broken finger, which covers the urchin&#8217;s complete hand.<\/p>\n<p>Then she turns to me, the only adult in sight, and relates the story of how when she was a child, her sister was goofing off when their parents were gone and managed to knock her thumb out of its socket and jam it up into the hand itself.  I agreed that it sounded painful, but the first chit-chat, small-talk comment that came to mind as I stood there, leaning against the cinderblock wall in my beaten old black trenchcoat and holding my black fedora, was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With a thumb you can dislocate on command, you can slip out of handcuffs easily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes make other people uncomfortable, and by uncomfortable, I mean I creep them the hell out. I don&#8217;t know why, but I suspect it&#8217;s because of incidents like this: Today, I&#8217;m watching my child play with the train set in the church-run preschool corridor when one little boy tells one of the teachers\/attendants about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9113,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}