{"id":333,"date":"2007-02-11T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/11\/friendlies-past\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T02:43:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T02:43:15","slug":"friendlies-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/11\/friendlies-past\/","title":{"rendered":"friendlies past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dinner. 2005. <\/strong> Sometimes I look just like I did when I was two. This wouldn&#8217;t be a bad thing if I were two. Or ten. But I&#8217;m 28 and trying to be stunning and gorgeous and not look like a frog.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s this expression I have when I can&#8217;t believe what I&#8217;m hearing and wouldn&#8217;t be interested even if I could.<\/p>\n<p>I wore it in all my grade-school portraits when the photographer tried to make me smile by ad-libbing a conversation between a stuffed rabbit and his hand; and I wore it the other evening at a dinner party when my hostess, an aspiring (i.e. never wrote a thing in her life) author, broke out a &#8220;Ten Steps To Writing a Successful Novel&#8221; list which she comprised herself and which consisted of things like &#8220;never write commercially or you&#8217;ll never leave anything behind,&#8221; and &#8220;never be an American because they&#8217;re just <em>not<\/em> that literate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a rude person, but sometimes, when I really can&#8217;t believe what I&#8217;m hearing, I look like a frog. I can&#8217;t help it. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner. 2005. Sometimes I look just like I did when I was two. This wouldn&#8217;t be a bad thing if I were two. Or ten. But I&#8217;m 28 and trying to be stunning and gorgeous and not look like a frog. It&#8217;s this expression I have when I can&#8217;t believe what I&#8217;m hearing and wouldn&#8217;t<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}