{"id":123,"date":"2004-07-26T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2004-07-26T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T15:36:00","slug":"adventures-in-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going out on a short jaunt down to the local Kroger to pick up some Alka-Seltzer Cold Plus (fizzy kind, not the gelcap) as recommended to me by <lj user=travellight>, the Official Doctor of LiveJournal<sup>TM<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In the parking lot, a hispanic man with apparently limited English stopped me, held out a piece of paper and asked &#8220;you know where this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The page was a letter from Dekalb Family Services, and had an address at the top.  Sam Avenue, or something like that.  I had no idea where it was.  I apologized and told him I wasn&#8217;t familiar with the street.  He pointed to the part that said Dekalb Family Services and asked if I knew that building.  I again had to say I was clueless.<\/p>\n<p>I went into Kroger feeling really bad.  I didn&#8217;t have a map of Atlanta with me, it&#8217;s in Stacey&#8217;s car.  The gentleman looked somewhat distraught, and who knows how important it would be for him to find that building.  I didn&#8217;t read the letter, but having to go to Family Services can&#8217;t be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>So much for building up good Kharma today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going out on a short jaunt down to the local Kroger to pick up some Alka-Seltzer Cold Plus (fizzy kind, not the gelcap) as recommended to me by , the Official Doctor of LiveJournalTM. In the parking lot, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}