{"id":155,"date":"2004-02-09T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/02\/09\/94f5f168-bb32-4b6a-8916-1ffcc98cd751\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:30:06","slug":"94f5f168-bb32-4b6a-8916-1ffcc98cd751","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/94f5f168-bb32-4b6a-8916-1ffcc98cd751\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>Well, I Learned Something Today&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy dictates turning off your cellphone ringer in a restaurant, right? (You fools who said no can go back to reading Cathy now. I hear she&#8217;s getting engaged to Irving this week, you&#8217;re pretty excited aren&#8217;t you? Go now.)<\/p>\n<p>The folks and I went out to breakfast, so naturally I turned off the ringer. Also naturally, I forgot about it. Considering that I never get calls and that I&#8217;ve only felt the thing vibrate in my hand, when it went off while attached to my hip I was alarmed&mdash;Gas? On my hip? I hope not. Squeaky chair? Dried out rattan! Of course. A simple squirm and it went away, for fifteen seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Great baby Jeebus. Am I extra dumb or what?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not, even though I still have a hard time appreciating the nuance of Marvin, Marmaduke, or even Mallard Filmore.<\/p>\n<p>[<i>What a dullard! &#8211; ed<\/i> You ain&#8217;t kidding. I don&#8217;t even get Hazel. &#8211; bob]<\/p>\n<p>Your best pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I Learned Something Today&#8230; Courtesy dictates turning off your cellphone ringer in a restaurant, right? (You fools who said no can go back to reading Cathy now. I hear she&#8217;s getting engaged to Irving this week, you&#8217;re pretty excited aren&#8217;t you? Go now.) The folks and I went out to breakfast, so naturally I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/94f5f168-bb32-4b6a-8916-1ffcc98cd751\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}