{"id":779,"date":"2006-12-12T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T18:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=779"},"modified":"2006-12-12T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T18:26:28","slug":"uncle-tom-is-at-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Tom is at my house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M, the interior painter, who has had some brushes with the law lately and is ill-tempered or sweet depending on his level of toxicity &#8211; I gather &#8211; I don&#8217;t know for certain &#8211; started giving me the yessa massa routine today when I asked him to paint the ceiling before the electrician got there tomorrow to hang the fans. &#8220;It&#8217;s your house, mam,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is my house, I told him, and I am asking him to paint the ceiling &#8211; &#8220;You have something to say to me, say it now, bring it on.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>No mam, just saying I&#8217;ll get to the ceiling, mam. <\/p>\n<p>Good god. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M, the interior painter, who has had some brushes with the law lately and is ill-tempered or sweet depending on his level of toxicity &#8211; I gather &#8211; I don&#8217;t know for certain &#8211; started giving me the yessa massa routine today when I asked him to paint the ceiling before the electrician got there tomorrow to hang the fans. &#8220;It&#8217;s your house, mam,&#8221; he said. Yes, it is my house, I told him, and&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-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}