{"id":4221,"date":"2010-07-04T23:36:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T03:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2010-07-04T23:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T03:48:16","slug":"very-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/04\/very-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"very creepy…"},"content":{"rendered":"
The community I live in loosely organized around our small lake gathers on the 4th of July for a picnic and some fireworks. A guy who is a new arrival come up and started to talk. He had on a bright red tee-shirt with an American Flag – fairly standard garb for such an event. I said something like, "That’s a pretty green tee-shirt." He laughed and said he guessed it was his TEA Party<\/font><\/strong> Party tee-shirt. I became mute.<\/div>\n

He continued, saying he was going to this month’s TEA Party<\/font><\/strong> meeting to hear the speaker – someone he knew. "He grew up in Cuba but got out before Castro. I’ve heard him before. He talks about how the things that are happening here are the kind of things that happened in Cuba before Castro took over." I became more mute [if that’s possible]. But he continued. "I’ve never paid attention before, but It’s a good time to start. Now that so many things are being taken away from us…" That’s about where I zoned out, and shortly found someone to pretend was calling me to tend to the fire. I said "excuse me" and rode a rocket to another place.<\/p>\n

It put a pall over the rest of the evening, one that’s still with me. It was my first ever such encounter, and it left me feeling very creepy. It reminded me of the John Birchers from the 1960’s. Very creepy…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The community I live in loosely organized around our small lake gathers on the 4th of July for a picnic and some fireworks. A guy who is a new arrival come up and started to talk. He had on a bright red tee-shirt with an American Flag – fairly standard garb for such an event. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}