{"id":2998,"date":"2017-06-16T23:47:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T06:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2017-06-16T23:47:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T06:47:05","slug":"the-pool-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/the-pool-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"the pool boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I&#8217;ll get a text from a stranger. I got this one yesterday from an area code in New York:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/text_poolboy_john-1.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3005\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/text_poolboy_john-1.png?resize=745%2C667\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/text_poolboy_john-1.png?w=745&amp;ssl=1 745w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/text_poolboy_john-1.png?resize=300%2C269&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if John ever found who he was looking for. Either someone has fat fingers and pressed the wrong button, or they just gave John a throwaway number (mine) just to get him to buzz off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I&#8217;ll get a text from a stranger. I got this one yesterday from an area code in New York: ~ I wonder if John ever found who he was looking for. Either someone has fat fingers and pressed the wrong button, or they just gave John a throwaway number (mine) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/the-pool-boy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the pool boy&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-Mm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","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=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}