{"id":1125,"date":"2008-01-12T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T14:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1125"},"modified":"2008-01-12T09:51:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T14:51:48","slug":"huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1125","title":{"rendered":"Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;according to this young cuteling I met in a D.C. bar last night&#8230;I&#8217;m a<em> Throwback<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quietly standing at the balcony rail  of the outdoor smoker&#8217;s lounge of this gay bar, puffing on down one of my mini-cigars while some local friends of mine are inside chatting.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t smoke often, but lately I&#8217;ve been going for after dinner cigar walks and right now I feel like a cigar between the B-52s I&#8217;ve been downing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This kinda cute young guy walks over to me and gives me a look&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: Hi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He<\/strong>: Are you a throwback?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: Sorry?<\/p>\n<p><strong>He<\/strong>: You lived through the sixtes?&nbsp; You know&#8230;the hippies and that stuff&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: Yeah&#8230;but I wasn&#8217;t a Hippy.&nbsp; There were a lot of different things going on back then.&nbsp; Most of us were just along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He<\/strong>: I know&#8230;I&#8217;ve read all the books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: Throwback?<\/p>\n<p><strong>He<\/strong>: You know&#8230;from back then&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: I don&#8217;t understand your use of the term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He<\/strong>: You&#8217;re about my mother&#8217;s age&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason I&#8217;m a computer geek is that computers never baffled me as much as people do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;according to this young cuteling I met in a D.C. bar last night&#8230;I&#8217;m a Throwback.&nbsp; I&#8217;m quietly standing at the balcony rail of the outdoor smoker&#8217;s lounge of this gay bar, puffing on down one of my mini-cigars while some local friends of mine are inside chatting.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t smoke often, but lately I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}