{"id":2273,"date":"2005-10-02T21:14:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T01:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2005-10-02T21:17:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T01:17:53","slug":"i-didnt-throw-the-pebble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/02\/i-didnt-throw-the-pebble\/","title":{"rendered":"i didn&#8217;t throw the pebble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walk through a Ford dealership every day to and from work. Last Thursday, going home, my eye was caught by a tiny round black pebble dropping onto the hood (<em>= bonnet<\/em>) of a nearby car.<\/p>\n<p>A salesman was near, and saw the pebble. He yelled at me, asking if I&#8217;d thrown it. I said that I didn&#8217;t. He didn&#8217;t seem mollified. I better watch out for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walk through a Ford dealership every day to and from work. Last Thursday, going home, my eye was caught by a tiny round black pebble dropping onto the hood (= bonnet) of a nearby car. A salesman was near, and saw the pebble. He yelled at me, asking if I&#8217;d thrown it. I said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1302,351,85,150,1202,1269,1041],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-suck","tag-ack","tag-bonnet","tag-car","tag-led","tag-sales","tag-ugh","tag-walk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-AF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}