{"id":2175,"date":"2007-11-08T22:39:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T06:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2007-11-08T22:39:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T06:39:35","slug":"just-because-of-a-coupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"Just because of a coupon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, I asked a friend to drive me to the grocery store.  Then another friend asked if I wanted observe the flash mob in Civic Center.  Torn, I asked the first friend to come.  And I randomly txted a few people in a flash mob fashion.  And it&#8217;s interesting how in that very one night, a change of events occurred.<\/p>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t demand a ride to Safeway that night&#8230;some people wouldn&#8217;t have met.  Some people would have never learned a new lesson.  Some people wouldn&#8217;t have begun a new chapter.  Some people wouldn&#8217;t have moved on.  And some people may not have been assured of their role.<\/p>\n<p>I used to always say no.  Out of fear.  Out of anxiety for what would happen if I was caught in anxiety or awkwardness.  But now I say yes even though 90% of the time, it will be awkward.  I swallow it, knowing change is better than none at all.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I randomly asked a friend I have only recently gotten to known downtown to use my last Jamba Juice buy one get one free coupon.  It was nice.  Even though we&#8217;re from different worlds.  Me from that educated, goal-directed background and she from a struggling background.   All but the same.  We both don&#8217;t like chocolate with nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, I asked a friend to drive me to the grocery store. Then another friend asked if I wanted observe the flash mob in Civic Center. Torn, I asked the first friend to come. And I randomly txted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}