{"id":5,"date":"2005-10-30T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T14:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2007-09-05T22:51:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T22:51:35","slug":"the-man-with-the-talking-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/30\/the-man-with-the-talking-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"the man with the talking hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 dinner party when my hostess, an aspiring (i.e. never wrote a thing in her life) author broke out a &#8216;Ten Steps To Writing a Successful Novel&#8217; list which she comprised herself and which consisted of things like &#8216;never write commercially or you&#8217;ll never leave anything behind&#8217; and &#8216;never be an American because they&#8217;re just not that literate&#8217;.<\/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>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 be interested<!-- 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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}