{"id":20,"date":"2006-11-16T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/17\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T21:25:00","slug":"17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/17\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I work at RIT right now. After lunch yesterday I walked down to the bookstore, and when I went by the library I saw several girls wearing signs saying, &#8220;Free hugs.&#8221; Julie was standing by and observing, and we greeted each other &#8212; &#8220;Timbo!&#8221; (She&#8217;s the only person who ever calls me that.) On my way back, she was still there. She said, &#8220;Timbo, you look like you need a hug. It&#8217;s all over you.&#8221; When I expressed unwillingness, she pointed that someone I knew was over there, and that &#8220;nobody&#8217;s been hugging Kate because they think she smells bad.&#8221; She walked over, and I reluctantly allowed her to hug me. Julie cheered. I smiled as I continued on to my destination (not necessarily from the hug, but from the general amusingness of the situation).  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/Images\/smiley1.gif\" height=\"15\" width=\"15\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work at RIT right now. After lunch yesterday I walked down to the bookstore, and when I went by the library I saw several girls wearing signs saying, &#8220;Free hugs.&#8221; Julie was standing by and observing, and we greeted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xanga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}