{"id":3890,"date":"2010-04-27T22:02:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2010-04-27T22:02:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:02:31","slug":"fall-down-go-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3890","title":{"rendered":"Fall down, go boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4558862433\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3601\/4558862433_31b4359d85.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Sometimes, you&#8217;re just walking along, minding your own business, when the universe decides to make your day a little more interesting in a slightly unpleasant manner. That&#8217;s what happened to me today, on my lunch break, when, across the street from Grand Central, I slipped on a wet patch of asphalt and fell to the ground, skinning my knee and ripping a small hole in my trouser leg in the process. <\/p>\n<p>I considered walking on &#8212; my pride was hurt a lot more than my knee, and the hole was neither so big nor in an embarrassing location &#8212; but I was right across the street from a couple of clothing stores, so I decided to look for a pair of replacement pants. It took me a while, and a trip over to Fifth Avenue&#8217;s Lord &#038; Taylor &#8212; where, because of construction inside the store, it took me longer just to <i>find<\/i> the men&#8217;s department &#8212; but I eventually bought a new pair of pants, went back to the office with them, and changed in the bathroom. <\/p>\n<p>And then I finally got to eat lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, though, my day wasn&#8217;t especially exciting.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you&#8217;re just walking along, minding your own business, when the universe decides to make your day a little more interesting in a slightly unpleasant manner. That&#8217;s what happened to me today, on my lunch break, when, across the street from Grand Central, I slipped on a wet patch of asphalt and fell to the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3890\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[54,28],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-york","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}