{"id":2246,"date":"2007-10-16T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/10\/16\/they-make-me-uncomfortable\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T19:12:00","slug":"they-make-me-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/10\/16\/they-make-me-uncomfortable\/","title":{"rendered":"they make me uncomfortable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A-a-are you gonna take me home tonight?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Methodically exploring aisles in Canadian Tire, I&#8217;m smiling at the Classic Rock station playing over the sound system, warmed by my kissing connection with the bass line, looking for a shallow storage box, and beginning to doubt if they have what I came for. Everything looks cheap under the halogens. Even me, I suppose. The drab stacks of unpacked christmas lights in the last aisle are intimidating and smell like packing plastic. <\/p>\n<p><i>Ah-h down beside that red firelight.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The shop girl I find, no make-up, earrings like the claws of an animal, says she likes my pin-stripe pants, but she doesn&#8217;t know if she can help me. The next person, an improbably tall young man whose staff vest is too bright, says he likes my hoodie, but they don&#8217;t have what I need. As I leave, the cashier comments on my shoes. I say thank you and hang my head against the rain and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital.udk-berlin.de\/en\/projects\/summer07\/haupt\/bodytech\/googlering.html\">the fashion conscious staff<\/a>. They were not what I&#8217;d hoped for.<\/p>\n<p><i>Are you gonna let it all hang out?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Fat bottomed girls<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y6DIwf-u0_k\">You make the rockin world go round.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A-a-are you gonna take me home tonight? Methodically exploring aisles in Canadian Tire, I&#8217;m smiling at the Classic Rock station playing over the sound system, warmed by my kissing connection with the bass line, looking for a shallow storage box, and beginning to doubt if they have what I came for. Everything looks cheap under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/10\/16\/they-make-me-uncomfortable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;they make me uncomfortable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[1338],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oh-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}