{"id":125,"date":"2004-12-21T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2004-12-21T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T04:25:00","slug":"great-moments-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in History."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter. 1990? 1991?<\/p>\n<p>Going downhill skiing for the third time (out of a total of four, ever), and sharing a lift with an attractive older man who obviously had his own, unrented gear, and goggles, and a very nice matching ski jacket &#038; pants, and being what I deemed observant, and ever-gregarious, I said, &#8220;So! You ski much?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He smiled &#038; nodded.<\/p>\n<p>We got off the lift, he schussed away, my friend was bent over laughing at me.<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;What?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her, Gasping: &#8220;HE&#8230;..WAS&#8230;&#8230;NATIONAL&#8230;&#8230;SKI&#8230;..PATROL! AND YOU&#8230;&#8230;SKI? &#8230;.MUCH?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess he had a little patch on his jacket that indicated this.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. At least I was friendly, dammit. Still am, in fact.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter. 1990? 1991? Going downhill skiing for the third time (out of a total of four, ever), and sharing a lift with an attractive older man who obviously had his own, unrented gear, and goggles, and a very nice matching ski jacket &#038; pants, and being what I deemed observant, and ever-gregarious, I said, &#8220;So! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}