{"id":3847,"date":"2009-03-23T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2009-05-20T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T21:01:40","slug":"real-life-dialogue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/real-life-dialogue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-Life Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Real-life dialogue\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/reallifedialog_sm.jpg?resize=200%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" \/> <em>[The scene: a small quasi-hallway between garage and kitchen in a suburban house somewhere in North Florida.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>She:<\/strong><em> [pointing to weird, waist-high structure made of woven twigs and\/or sticks, with four legs, a torso, and a head from which antlers sprout]<\/em> Why is that still here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>He:<em> <\/em><\/strong><em>[studiously ignoring the obvious]<\/em> Why is what still here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>She:<\/strong> That. The reindeer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He:<\/strong> Well, it&#8217;s a Christmas orn&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>She:<\/strong> But <em>Christmas was three months ago<\/em>. Why is that reindeer still here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>He:<\/strong> Maybe it would help if you don&#8217;t think of it as a reindeer. Think of it as a stag.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She:<\/strong> It&#8217;s not a stag! <em>Put it with the other Christmas stuff!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The scene: a small quasi-hallway between garage and kitchen in a suburban house somewhere in North Florida.] She: [pointing to weird, waist-high structure made of woven twigs and\/or sticks, with four legs, a torso, and a head from which antlers sprout] Why is that still here? He: [studiously ignoring the obvious] Why is what still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[183,1235,50],"tags":[805,933,1103],"class_list":{"0":"post-3847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-everyday-life","7":"category-real-life-dialogue-runningaftermyhat","8":"category-language-writing_cat","9":"tag-christmas-ornaments","10":"tag-real-life-dialogue","11":"tag-divergent-ideas-about-household-upkeep","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-103","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}