{"id":3992,"date":"2012-06-28T22:48:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2012-06-28T22:48:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:48:40","slug":"and-then-the-little-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"And then the little boy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking back from brunch, thinking about what else I needed to do before heading downtown.  Not paying heed to anyone I passed on my busy street.  It was a lazy weekend morning.<\/p>\n<p>As I passed a Mexican boy of 10 years old, he looked straight at me.  He cupped his chest and jiggled the imaginary sandbags as if they were bouncy.  Then he declared loudly, &#8220;Hola, chica!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At first, I was nonplussed.  I was silent and did not react.  But moments later after he had passed me&#8230;I started cracking up and couldn&#8217;t stop laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking back from brunch, thinking about what else I needed to do before heading downtown. Not paying heed to anyone I passed on my busy street. It was a lazy weekend morning. As I passed a Mexican boy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3992\">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-3992","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\/3992","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=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3993,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}