{"id":6866,"date":"2002-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2022-02-27T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:19:01","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2002\/04\/12\/9\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How &#8217;bout this weather and my increasing fascination with humanity? awed by the jazz-blasting bus driver dressed to the nines and microfilm from &#8217;62 when MLK Jr. was still alive and temperatures in the warm enough to ditch the flannel johns <i>warm<\/i> with the knowing that I&#8217;d wear my shorts were they not still show-dirty from SPARTA and THURSDAY &lt; swoons and dies &gt;. I hugged a stranger today. Pulled faces at kids on an elementary school bus. Found a wicked nighttime bike light and heard &#8220;Pictures of You&#8221; on the radio. On campus on the wall of a bathroom stall, someone pencil-posed deeply, &#8220;If you died tomorrow, where would you go?&#8221; Below this, writ in a dreamy scrawl, is &#8220;Florida.&#8221; Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How &#8217;bout this weather and my increasing fascination with humanity? awed by the jazz-blasting bus driver dressed to the nines and microfilm from &#8217;62 when MLK Jr. was still alive and temperatures in the warm enough to ditch the flannel johns warm with the knowing that I&#8217;d wear my shorts were they not still show-dirty<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2002\/04\/12\/9\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25,36,38],"class_list":["post-6866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shouts","tag-joy","tag-shows","tag-swoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6918,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}