{"id":279,"date":"2005-09-01T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-12-07T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T21:33:42","slug":"esscuse-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"esscuse me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Esscuse me&#8230; I say esscuse me miss&#8230; do you have any spare change?  I say esscuse me&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time keeps doing its thing, and somehow I only have a couple of weeks left working here.  One of the things I won&#8217;t miss about living in this area, are the Old Town Alexandria panhandlers (called panhandlers rather than beggars because we&#8217;re in America, I&#8217;m not sure why).  From the tall scary dude; the old guy who is always walking along waving his crutches around; to the short gap-toothed lady who has been &#8216;pregnant&#8217; for a couple of years now (should I perhaps tell her she&#8217;s just fat?), and all the others.  I&#8217;m sick of all of them, and their incessant requests for my money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esscuse me&#8230; I say esscuse me miss&#8230; do you have any spare change? I say esscuse me&#8230; Time keeps doing its thing, and somehow I only have a couple of weeks left working here. One of the things I won&#8217;t miss about living in this area, are the Old Town Alexandria panhandlers (called panhandlers rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[660,341,659,256],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beggar","tag-culture-shock","tag-pan-handler","tag-usa"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">beggar<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">culture shock<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">pan-handler<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">beggar<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">culture shock<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">pan-handler<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"2","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 21 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 1.9.2005","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 1.9.2005 10:42 am","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008 3:33 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}