{"id":1487,"date":"2008-10-08T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2008-10-08T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T19:00:30","slug":"heard-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"Heard on the Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled up to the Panera on the Plaza this morning, and noted this odd-lookin&#8217; dude pacing back and forth on the sidewalk. Not odd in the sense of &#8220;By-Night-I-Live-Under-The-Bridge&#8221;, but I just don&#8217;t see a lot of professional men in sweater vests and Dutch Boy haircuts, and this one had his earbud-cellphone thing going on so he was talking while pacing. I wasn&#8217;t sure if there was much of an accent, mostly because I was trying to contain my surprise at hearing, &#8220;I just hope that getting off the SlrrrrrXicrrrrr is easier than getting off methadone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I certainly hope so, too.<\/p>\n<p>And once again, proving how the world is shrinking, I ran into a couple of co-workers. I marveled at how fantastically well (and fast) our brains can work, you know? I just glanced sideways into the seating area as I set my bag down, waiting for my breakfast sammie, and I saw my two friends. Chatting with them turned into a longer-than-expected delay, but was lovely and worth it. And didn&#8217;t require a smidgen of methadone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled up to the Panera on the Plaza this morning, and noted this odd-lookin&#8217; dude pacing back and forth on the sidewalk. Not odd in the sense of &#8220;By-Night-I-Live-Under-The-Bridge&#8221;, but I just don&#8217;t see a lot of professional men in sweater vests and Dutch Boy haircuts, and this one had his earbud-cellphone thing going [&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":[8,16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"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=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}