{"id":249,"date":"2009-03-31T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-03-31T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:01:00","slug":"uncomfortable-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/uncomfortable-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncomfortable silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm&#8230;.so I just went to use the restroom at my work (which is in the hallway shared with the rest of the building).\u00c2\u00a0 I go in to use one of the urinals (the ones on the wall).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I start peeing.\u00c2\u00a0 As I&#8217;m going I hear a little kid with their dad in one of the stalls.\u00c2\u00a0 The dad is helping the kid use the toilet and the kid is asking all sorts of questions &#8220;what&#8217;s this? what&#8217;s that?&#8221; and the dad dutifully answers everything with &#8220;don&#8217;t touch that&#8221; being a common chorus.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still going as they finish and quickly wash their hands.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s when the kid walks behind me and I notice out of the corner of my eye it&#8217;s a 3-4yo girl.\u00c2\u00a0 She points at me (I have my back to them of course) and goes &#8220;What&#8217;s that daddy?\u00c2\u00a0 Why is that man standing at the wall?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I stayed uncomfortably silent as the father ignored the question and hurried them out the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm&#8230;.so I just went to use the restroom at my work (which is in the hallway shared with the rest of the building).\u00c2\u00a0 I go in to use one of the urinals (the ones on the wall).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I start peeing.\u00c2\u00a0 As I&#8217;m going I hear a little kid with their dad in one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}