{"id":2003,"date":"2012-06-01T10:59:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:59:36","slug":"sweethearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, S and B and I were up at Last Thursday, a monthly street fair in NE Portland. We ran into an acquaintance of S. The acquaintance introduced us to her husband, and S introduced me and B with, &#8220;and this is my family.&#8221; Obviously, this left a couple of questions in the woman&#8217;s head, because after a couple of moments of chit-chat, she said, &#8220;Oh! So this is your <strong>real<\/strong> family. Your\u2026 brother and sister?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I smiled faintly and said, &#8220;No. Sweethearts.&#8221; Which earned me a wide-eyed look and an &#8220;Oh.&#8221; And end of topic.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty happy with how I handled that.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, S and B and I were up at Last Thursday, a monthly street fair in NE Portland. We ran into an acquaintance of S. The acquaintance introduced us&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=2003\">Read more &raquo;<\/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":[43,47],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pdx","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}