{"id":1087,"date":"2004-05-20T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T21:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:25:44","slug":"in-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"In Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--108507390017651341-->It&#8217;s amazing how you think you can get some people out of your life, but instead they just hang in there like cold symptoms that never want to go away. &#8220;Evil&#8221; called last night all thrilled with his new cell phone. Grrr. It&#8217;s the first time I have heard his voice since he ditched out of town a month ago. We chatted. He likes his job. He has a new car. Things in the big city are boring. There&#8217;s nothing to do. He&#8217;s gonna harass me on the phone when he&#8217;s bored. I told him that if was going to call when he was bored, that I was going to call him when I was drunk, depressed and inconsolable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how you think you can get some people out of your life, but instead they just hang in there like cold symptoms that never want to go away. &#8220;Evil&#8221; called last night all thrilled with his new cell phone. Grrr. It&#8217;s the first time I have heard his voice since he ditched out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-hx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11985,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/11985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}