{"id":574,"date":"2009-12-19T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/home\/wordpress\/?p=574"},"modified":"2009-12-19T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T16:24:43","slug":"someone-always-has-to-rain-on-the-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Someone always has to rain on the parade."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I went to my favorite diner for lunch.  I am a regular there, and always sit in the same place, and almost always I am waited on by the same waitresses.  I know these people well, and I go to the diner as much to see them as I do to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Every Christmas season, I give my regular waitresses a little extra bonus for putting up with me all year.  They are always most appreciative, and I enjoy sharing what I have with them.  It was no different this year.<\/p>\n<p>Exept, this year, one of the waitresses who never waits on me saw me give them the extra cash which I carefully folded up and stuffed into a napkin.  (real classy huh?).  This particular waitress immediately hollars out: &#8220;Where&#8217;s mine&#8221;.  Of course, I didn&#8217;t have anything for her, and really saw no reason too, but you know; that made me feel bad.  That little incident completely broke my Christmas spirit for a while.<\/p>\n<p>May your Christmas be perfect, and not marred by the Grinch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I went to my favorite diner for lunch. I am a regular there, and always sit in the same place, and almost always I am waited on by the same waitresses. I know these people <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/?p=574\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}