{"id":364,"date":"2007-04-16T03:25:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T03:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2007-11-17T01:09:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T01:09:24","slug":"thanks-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/thanks-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"thanks mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/12\/there-are-no-words\/\">Continued&#8230;<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nLast night after I realized it WAS Stephen sitting in my hall I locked myself in my bedroom and didn&#8217;t come out.  He beat on the door and I kept thinking <em>How did he find me <\/em>and thought about crawling out the window.  I didn&#8217;t and when Bella came home three hours later she explained in a very matronly tone that Stephen and she are dating.  &#8220;I hope it isn&#8217;t weird for you.  I was going to tell you&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What??!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my mother&#8217;s fault.  My mother leads this really bizarre life where twilight zone things happen to her and anyone who gets near her.  Here&#8217;s what happened in June.  <\/p>\n<p>Stephen was in America and phoned my house to say maybe we could meet up and have a drink only I wasn&#8217;t home &#8211; my mother was.  I don&#8217;t know why she told him this, or why he called in the first place, but anyway she told him I was moving to England and would be living in Manchester and he says &#8220;I&#8217;m back in The North (of England) too&#8221; and she asked him if he&#8217;d stop in and check on me when I got here because she was worried and all.  Then she gave him the address of the house I had just agreed to lease and she never told me ANY of this.  <\/p>\n<p>So last month Stephen drops by to see if I&#8217;d got here yet and to borrow money.  He met Bella who told him I wouldn&#8217;t be here for another three weeks and they sort of hit it off and now he&#8217;s gonna be sleeping down the hall from me on Wednesdays.  He looks like a weasel.  <\/p>\n<p>I told Earl all this, by the way, and she doesn&#8217;t believe me.  I told Peter and he&#8217;s furious.  And that&#8217;s the only good thing about the whole situation.  I think Peter is <em>jealous<\/em> &#8211; despite his hot date with The Strudel (the nickname I&#8217;ve given his ridiculously accented man-height Dutch girlfriend) tonight he&#8217;s managed to phone me up four times to bite and moan.  I kinda like it.<\/p>\n<p><em>24 August 1998<\/em><\/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>Continued&#8230; Last night after I realized it WAS Stephen sitting in my hall I locked myself in my bedroom and didn&#8217;t come out. He beat on the door and I kept thinking How did he find me and thought about crawling out the window. I didn&#8217;t and when Bella came home three hours later she<!-- 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-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}