{"id":4115,"date":"2004-07-29T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/opposites-attract-2\/"},"modified":"2004-07-29T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T04:30:00","slug":"opposites-attract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/opposites-attract-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposites Attract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me: &#8220;So, what do you do for fun and excitement?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;You mean besides leading a life of crime?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Wait! You lead a life of crime? In my spare time, I fight crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;They say opposites attract.  What kind of crime do you fight?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Petty thugs&#8230;I bust litter-bugs, graffiti artists, stuff like that.  Why, do you commit crime around here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;No, I hide out in Chicago.  I commit all my crime in Asia&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;&#8230;where a tall, white guy like you wouldn&#8217;t stand out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;Exactly.  They never see it coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;What&#8217;s your cover in Chicago, are you an engineer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;Yeah&#8230;wait&#8230;that&#8217;s freakish! How did you guess?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;You have that&#8230;engineering air.  The Dilbert and Star Trek references must come naturally to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;I think I&#8217;ve mastered the nuances.  I work very hard to not be mistaken for an engineer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Well, the master plan needs work.  You still reek of engineer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;Yeah, I know.  <i>Act cool, get laid<\/i> isn&#8217;t as easy as it sounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Lose the gear, and keep trying!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: &#8220;So, what do you do for fun and excitement?&#8221; He: &#8220;You mean besides leading a life of crime?&#8221; Me: &#8220;Wait! You lead a life of crime? In my spare time, I fight crime.&#8221; He: &#8220;They say opposites attract. What kind of crime do you fight?&#8221; Me: &#8220;Petty thugs&#8230;I bust litter-bugs, graffiti artists, stuff like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}