{"id":645,"date":"2011-07-12T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2011-07-12T09:13:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T15:13:57","slug":"scare-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Scare Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/scarey-words1.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/scarey-words1.bmp\" alt=\"\" title=\"scarey words\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-647\" \/><\/a>I frighten children. <\/p>\n<p>And teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>And timid adults.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes intentionally. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the time without my intention.<\/p>\n<p>When I am made aware of my scare tactics I am often taken aback (not sure what that means but it sounds good here).<\/p>\n<p>Take my recent texted conversation with my friend Nana Kay. <\/p>\n<p><em>Me: I give up. The pain is so bad. You sure you want to loan me one of your daughters to help clean my house?<br \/>\nNana Kay: Sure. They would love to come help you.<br \/>\nMe: If you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I frighten children. And teenagers. And timid adults. Sometimes intentionally. Most of the time without my intention. When I am made aware of my scare tactics I am often taken aback (not sure what that means but it sounds good here). Take my recent texted conversation with my friend Nana Kay. Me: I give up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-the-land-of-confusion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}