{"id":2449,"date":"2009-02-09T23:28:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T07:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2009-02-09T23:29:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T07:29:25","slug":"when-waiting-dont-stand-in-dark-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"When waiting, don&#8217;t stand in dark corners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I remember this happening to me was when I was trying to catch a taxi on Van Ness.  Stupidly, I stood in a dark corner, timidly waving my hands.  <i>Hey taxi, look at me!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I stood at that corner for at least 30 minutes until I basically ran into the street in frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I stood on the corner, happily waiting for a bus that I didn&#8217;t have to wait long.  Then unhappily as the bus driver did a California roll and kept going.  I ran after the bus after for an uphill block, but stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Then when the next bus came, I brought out my 10 ticket ride&#8230;which the driver accidentally tore off 2.  I didn&#8217;t have the energy to yell at him, but instead took note of his bus driver number to argue next time.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah it&#8217;s bus driver 1872 for reference.  He apologized though but didn&#8217;t give me guarantees.  Maybe I should have demanded $1.50 from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I remember this happening to me was when I was trying to catch a taxi on Van Ness. Stupidly, I stood in a dark corner, timidly waving my hands. Hey taxi, look at me! I stood at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2449\">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-2449","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\/2449","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=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}