{"id":214,"date":"2001-12-13T16:55:53","date_gmt":"2001-12-14T00:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=214"},"modified":"2001-12-13T16:55:53","modified_gmt":"2001-12-14T00:55:53","slug":"excuse-me-elsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2001\/12\/13\/excuse-me-elsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuse me, Elsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it was elsa&#8217;s birthday today and she drank one too many shots. she spilled and tripped and slurred her words all the way to our table. all i wanted was a slice of apple streudel and a glass of water but i lost her to more birthday singing and drinking and floating. when it was time to go, we left the tip in a birthday card that claudia had sitting in her bag.<!--claudia is worse than my grandma. what doesn't she have sitting in her bag? --> i hope she puts it in her pocket and looks at it tomorrow morning and wonders who the hell those girls were, anyway. <!--those girls include helen and claudia and miha and tania. there were boys, too. jesse and roger and roger's friends but i don't remember their names. peter and fiona were, sadly, MIA. these are the people with whom i work(ed), people i also happen to really like.--><\/p>\n<p>claudia, miha and i snuck out of the bar and drove up the hill to my house, where we drank pints of water, got high on fresh pine and talked about boys. i haven&#8217;t heard giggling like that bounce on these walls in so long.<\/p>\n<p>i am trying to convince miha to move to my neighborhood, so we could do that sort of thing more often. for the longest time she&#8217;d complain to me how she didn&#8217;t have any friends here in LA, but i think she&#8217;s finally realizing that she, in fact, does.<\/p>\n<p>i almost didn&#8217;t go out tonight. i was ready to slip into my pajamas and sink into crankiness. <!-- caution: we are now approaching the red zone. --> i was ready to wish the world away, but i&#8217;m glad i didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it was elsa&#8217;s birthday today and she drank one too many shots. she spilled and tripped and slurred her words all the way to our table. all i wanted was a slice of apple streudel and a glass of water but i lost her to more birthday singing and drinking and floating. when it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}