{"id":5257,"date":"2011-02-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/an-ironic-appendix-to-i-met-a-girl\/"},"modified":"2011-02-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:00:00","slug":"an-ironic-appendix-to-i-met-a-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/an-ironic-appendix-to-i-met-a-girl","title":{"rendered":"An Ironic Appendix To &#8216;I Met A Girl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10:59am |<\/strong> The very next time I was at Aroma di Roma (if you don&#8217;t know the backstory, go <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lbpost.com\/life\/greggory\/10973\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> before reading further), sitting on the other side of the glass wall, a mother came with two sons right around Alejandra&#8217;s age. At one point the younger boy was marching around in private reverie, talking to himself, and approached me as I watch him, pointing to me as he continued to intone words only he understood.<\/p>\n<p>Later there arrived a male adult-type (not the father; probably the mother&#8217;s boyfriend), who talked with the boys for a short while before they all got up to leave. Before leaving the boy decided to come back to my table, again pointing, though this time speaking quite clearly to me:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re <em>funny<\/em>!&#8221; he said, for no apparent reason. <\/p>\n<p>I pointed back: &#8220;You&#8217;re funny, too!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He smiled and joined the others in their leave-taking.<\/p>\n<p>Just before they were out of sight, I clearly heard the male adult-type&#8217;s words, spoken as a kindly admonishment:<\/p>\n<p><em>You shouldn&#8217;t talk to strangers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second chance encounter with one of Long Beach&#8217;s younger residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}