{"id":1368,"date":"2008-05-21T10:43:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T15:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/this-always-happens\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T10:43:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T15:43:34","slug":"this-always-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/this-always-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"This always happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Every year, I completely forget that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2008\/05\/20\/fleet_week_2008.php\">Fleet Week<\/a> until I see giant roving packs of uniformed servicemen wandering around the neighborhood.  And then I wonder why they all look like they&#8217;re about 12 years old (Shut up.  I&#8217;m not the one getting older!).  They&#8217;re also very polite and rules-oriented.  This morning on my way home from the gym, I had to make a giant detour around about 15-20 of them as they all stood patiently at the corner of empty street and empty avenue waiting for the &#8220;walk&#8221; signal.  After I dared to walk through the (still empty!) intersection, I saw one (one!) of them inch his way off the curb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I completely forget that it&#8217;s Fleet Week until I see giant roving packs of uniformed servicemen wandering around the neighborhood. And then I wonder why they all look like they&#8217;re about 12 years old (Shut up. I&#8217;m not the one getting older!). They&#8217;re also very polite and rules-oriented. This morning on my way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-current-events","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-m4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}