{"id":670,"date":"2013-11-26T17:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T21:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2013-11-27T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T21:11:06","slug":"a-jersey-man-walks-into-a-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"A Jersey Man Walks into a Bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image3-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Setting:<\/p>\n<p>Entrance to a men&#8217;s room in New York Penn Station. <\/p>\n<p>On the right &#8211; an apparently homeless man digging in the bathroom garbage, shoulder-deep.<\/p>\n<p>On the left &#8211; Sam Snyder, not obviously homeless. <\/p>\n<p>In the middle &#8211; a second possibly homeless guys. <\/p>\n<p>On observation, none if the actors know each other. <\/p>\n<p>Middle guy, tapping the homeless guy on the arm:  &#8220;Do you know that Jesus Christ loves you and died for your sins?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Homeless guy, now only elbow-deep in trash and obviously annoyed at being interrupted:  &#8220;What?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Middle guy, now hesitantly:  &#8220;Do you know that Jesus Christ loves you and died for your sins?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Homeless guy, definitely annoyed: *incoherent mumbling with vigorous head wagging*<\/p>\n<p>Sam Snyder, pondering:  Why did middle guy pick that other man to say that to and not me?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=670\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-send=\"true\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Setting: Entrance to a men&#8217;s room in New York Penn Station. On the right &#8211; an apparently homeless man digging in the bathroom garbage, shoulder-deep. On the left &#8211; Sam Snyder, not obviously homeless. In the middle &#8211; a second possibly homeless guys. On observation, none if the actors know each other. Middle guy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Jersey Man Walks into a Bathroom&#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":[45,43,24],"tags":[85,84,8],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey","category-new-york","category-social-commentary","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-true-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}