{"id":1341,"date":"2007-07-14T00:44:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T07:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2007-07-14T00:46:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T07:46:20","slug":"impractical-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Impractical joke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call from the Portland City Grill today asking me to confirm my reservation for five. I asked if they had the right number. Not only did they read off my phone number, but they also had my name on the reservation. I knew it couldn&#8217;t have been my sister, because she&#8217;s at the beach, and my mom wouldn&#8217;t do anything like that. I figure it was probably an impractical joke. If the restaurant hadn&#8217;t called me, it wouldn&#8217;t have affected me at all. As it was, it just confused me a little.<\/p>\n<p>My buddy Greg decided it&#8217;s more fun to try to make up a story about it. He thinks some was trying to frame me for murder. Or someone is going to assassinate me and needed me in a particular place at a particular time.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about showing up just to see if anyone else would be there. I watched, <b>The Departed<\/b><\/p>\n<p>, instead. Boy, that turned out to be a rip-off of a Hong Kong movie. It was a well-done remake, but it was still a remake with many identical visual scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call from the Portland City Grill today asking me to confirm my reservation for five. I asked if they had the right number. Not only did they read off my phone number, but they also had my name on the reservation. I knew it couldn&#8217;t have been my sister, because she&#8217;s at the beach, and my mom wouldn&#8217;t do anything like that. I figure it was probably an impractical joke. If the restaurant hadn&#8217;t called me, it wouldn&#8217;t have affected me at all. As it was, it just confused me a little. My buddy Greg decided it&#8217;s more fun to try to make up a story about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Impractical joke?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}