{"id":2652,"date":"2013-07-23T07:51:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2013-07-23T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:51:13","slug":"maybe-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2013\/07\/maybe-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dude at the gas station in front of me was trying to cash a check. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No we don&#8217;t do that here. Go to the bank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When does the bank open? This is my ride home&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;10 am. It is 7:30 now&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a long time to wait.<\/p>\n<p>I followed him out. &#8220;What do you need?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m just trying to get home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you need? Gas?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t know if he has a car or was riding the bus<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I rummaged in my purse. I wanted to give him a five, but all I had was 20s. I gave him two ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; oh thank you! Let me give you my business card so you can hit me up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; oh that&#8217;s ok.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He took my two dollars to the cashier to buy gas. Then I thought, oh that may have been him making a pass at me rather than him offering to repay the money <\/p>\n<p>Or it could have been both.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to be a Good Samaritan in a dress. Still felt pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dude at the gas station in front of me was trying to cash a check. &#8220;No we don&#8217;t do that here. Go to the bank.&#8221; &#8220;When does the bank open? This is my ride home&#8221; &#8220;10 am. It is 7:30 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2013\/07\/maybe-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}