{"id":17746,"date":"2013-02-13T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=17746"},"modified":"2013-02-13T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T05:40:11","slug":"to-the-man-at-the-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=17746","title":{"rendered":"To the man at the parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much to do I could spit. But I took Tin to Zulu this morning by bike because it&#8217;s Mardi Gras and remember I live in the city that Care Forgot, which is why you have to go to a parade on Fat Tuesday. Lately, since I&#8217;ve changed my life I&#8217;ve had a series of encounters. The man at CC&#8217;s who asked me in all honesty if I would give him a shot. The man at the parade who said, &#8220;You spoil your child. I would make him walk and hold his hand.&#8221; And then later, &#8220;I would protect you. And him.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Parade man gave me his number and said to call him. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not so demure. The guy at the coffee shop, I told, &#8220;My priority is my son, the fact that I&#8217;ve stopped and talked to you is the shot.&#8221; The guy at the parade I explained, &#8220;A mother&#8217;s job is to spoil her son. I&#8217;m in the middle of something, I can&#8217;t call you now.&#8221; Mr. Parade man said, &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to call now, call anytime, I like your attitude.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And I say to anyone right now &#8211; AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much to do I could spit. But I took Tin to Zulu this morning by bike because it&#8217;s Mardi Gras and remember I live in the city that Care Forgot, which is why you have to go to a parade on Fat Tuesday. Lately, since I&#8217;ve changed my life I&#8217;ve had a series of encounters. The man at CC&#8217;s who asked me in all honesty if I would give him a shot.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4Ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17747,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions\/17747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}