{"id":5583,"date":"2023-04-24T18:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T01:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T23:33:55","slug":"missed-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/04\/24\/missed-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The waiter comes around to check on me again. I avert my eyes in embarrassment and try to discreetly check the time on my phone. Going on two hours now. I should really give up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSitting inside! Text me when you get here x\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sent.<\/p>\n<p>Delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Read.<\/p>\n<p>Ignored.<\/p>\n<p>I sigh and crumple. I call the waiter over. I order a drink. \u201cOf course, madam,\u201d he says as he scurries away. Was that a look of pity in his eyes? I decide I\u2019d rather be drunk than dwell on that any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Man. Remind me to never use this app again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Rachel Martz<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The waiter comes around to check on me again. I avert my eyes in embarrassment and try to discreetly check the time on my phone. Going on two hours now. I should really give up. \u201cSitting inside! Text me when you get here x\u201d Sent. Delivered. Read. Ignored. I sigh and crumple. I call the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4024,7162,3703,6379,41,9089,3312,4614,11854,6858],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-app","tag-connections","tag-drink","tag-embarrassment","tag-guest-contributor","tag-madam","tag-phone","tag-pity","tag-rachel-martz","tag-waiter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}