{"id":4941,"date":"2018-02-20T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T01:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2018-02-20T19:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T01:17:55","slug":"guy-in-dreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/02\/20\/guy-in-dreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy in Dreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was busy most of the day, yesterday. At some point, I don&rsquo;t remember when, my phone shook. I was busy so I didn&rsquo;t look at it until later during a break. It was a number I didn&rsquo;t recognize. The message was as follows.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: red;\">This new york<\/pre>\n<p>I wasn&rsquo;t quite sure what to make of it, so I ignored and promptly forgot it. &#8230;until tonite.<\/p>\n<p>My phone beeps, and I look down.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: red;\">U working tonight?<\/pre>\n<p>I sit there and think a moment. Who could this be? I have no idea. But many people at work might ask me that question, and most of them are not in my cell contacts. So I text back.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: green;\">Who&rsquo;s this?<\/pre>\n<p>A few moments go by. My phone beeps.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: red;\">Guy with da dreads from new york<\/pre>\n<p>I think hard. I try to picture some guy in dreads, trying to summon a memory that I have evidently forgotten. Nothing comes up, so I reply.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: green;\">Wrong number methinks<\/pre>\n<p>Another message comes in.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: red;\">Was there Friday night<\/pre>\n<p>There was no one helping me on Friday night. The dogs, the fair and industrious Trudy and I were here all evening with no one else around.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I type<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: green;\">Wrong<\/pre>\n<p>to which the guy replies<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: red;\">Is this princess?<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"color: green;\">Nope<\/pre>\n<p>A few moments when by, and then&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: red;\">So u not a stripper?<\/pre>\n<p>I blocked the number. And now my story is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was busy most of the day, yesterday. At some point, I don&rsquo;t remember when, my phone shook. I was busy so I didn&rsquo;t look at it until later during a break. It was a number I didn&rsquo;t recognize. The message was as follows. This new york I wasn&rsquo;t quite sure what to make of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}