{"id":593,"date":"2005-08-19T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-20T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2005-08-19T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2005-08-20T05:05:08","slug":"i-made-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"I made a mistake."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so dudes do read this thing. In fact, I should have known that since I counted Jr. Slab as one of the four or five people reading this thing.<\/p>\n<p>So, I wrote a check for TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TODAY. At one point I wrote a larger check for THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS, but at least at that time it was for a car for ME, not a house for my stupid sister. OK, so it&#8217;s not my money (it&#8217;s my mom&#8217;s) and my sister promises to pay us back. I wasn&#8217;t so sure about the house, but our friend Jason likes it and he&#8217;s a contractor. It doesn&#8217;t have a garage, and it has a few too many stairs to get into it for an old person (IT WILL BE HARD FOR MY DAD TO VISIT) but I suppose it&#8217;s an OK house. I&#8217;d have to see the inside to make sure.<\/p>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s a woman from San Francisco flirting with me. She won&#8217;t tell me too much about herself. Even after I used my smoothest line on her,  asking if she had any personal photographs, the kind where she&#8217;s shooting milk out her nose.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Maybe I need to work on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so dudes do read this thing. In fact, I should have known that since I counted Jr. Slab as one of the four or five people reading this thing. So, I wrote a check for TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TODAY. At one point I wrote a larger check for THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS, but at least at that time it was for a car for ME, not a house for my stupid sister. OK, so it&#8217;s not my money (it&#8217;s my mom&#8217;s) and my sister promises to pay us back. I wasn&#8217;t so sure about the house, but our friend Jason likes it and he&#8217;s a contractor. It doesn&#8217;t have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I made a mistake.<\/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-593","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\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}