{"id":53,"date":"2006-09-19T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T00:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=53"},"modified":"2006-09-19T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T00:09:45","slug":"airport-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Airport Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>After getting cleared through the security checkpoint at Oakland Airport, the anonymous man in front of me and I ambled off to the side of the checkpoint to organize ourselves and our carry-on bags. Facing each other, we engaged in small talk as I strapped my blue and red Teva sandals on my bare feet and he looped his black leather belt through his denim belt loops and buckled his silver buckle. This created a weird, fleeting intimacy; I felt like I should offer to make him breakfast, or at least give him cab fare home.<\/p>\n<p>I did neither. Fully dressed and composed, we gathered our bags and went our separate ways; it was just a one-airport thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006) After getting cleared through the security checkpoint at Oakland Airport, the anonymous man in front of me and I ambled off to the side of the checkpoint to organize ourselves and our carry-on bags. Facing each other, we engaged in small talk as I strapped my blue and red Teva sandals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}