{"id":1667,"date":"2015-02-08T18:53:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T02:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2015-02-09T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:52:41","slug":"the-oddest-compliment-ive-received-thus-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/the-oddest-compliment-ive-received-thus-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The oddest compliment I&#8217;ve received thus far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nich would leave for California in several hours, but not without some parting words and hugs for everyone. We didn&#8217;t know each other well, but he hugged me anyway and said: &#8220;Wesley, you are the most consistent person I&#8217;ve ever met.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that even supposed to mean? I never asked him, but eight months later I still remember this. Now I have to project my own meanings and interpretations onto his words. Is consistency a nice way of saying that you&#8217;re predictable? Boring? Or mature and emotionally stable? Is this too far back in the past to bring up in casual conversation?<\/p>\n<p>Oh well. I may never know what he meant at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>(Just a thought as I wait for the 202 bus to the grocery store in La Jolla Village Square)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0504.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0504.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"IMG_0504.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nich would leave for California in several hours, but not without some parting words and hugs for everyone. We didn&#8217;t know each other well, but he hugged me anyway and said: &#8220;Wesley, you are the most consistent person I&#8217;ve ever met.&#8221; What&#8217;s that even supposed to mean? I never asked him, but eight months later &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/the-oddest-compliment-ive-received-thus-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The oddest compliment I&#8217;ve received thus far&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-qT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}