{"id":2035,"date":"2011-02-02T22:07:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T03:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2011-02-02T22:07:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T03:07:33","slug":"festive-business-trip-all-too-festive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2011\/02\/festive-business-trip-all-too-festive\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive Business Trip, All Too Festive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on an annual bus trip for the third year. It&#8217;s so kinda tour bus. I&#8217;m an employee of sorts. It&#8217;s festive. We are just about to complete the tour. People remenice about a concert that I wasn&#8217;t a part of: Gene Wilder, Luke Wilson, and Richard Prior. I&#8217;m surprised I wasn&#8217;t part of that concert.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has shot glasses, the circular kind with a truncated stem with a sweet whiskey liquor. I&#8217;m encouraged to drink. I give in and drink.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so jovial and festive, in a corny way. I spill some liquor as the bus winds its way around. Suddenly, I have a giant shot glass, bigger than my head: too much joviality and &#8220;Tonight the Streets are Ours&#8221; cues as exit music. I have a hard time keeping the drink straight and people laugh as the sticky substance laps over my hands. I drink from the giant glass and the bus goes up a hill, now in day light, and the scene freeze frames with the liquid pouring out onto my cheeks and the music turned up like the punchline to a movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on an annual bus trip for the third year. It&#8217;s so kinda tour bus. I&#8217;m an employee of sorts. It&#8217;s festive. We are just about to complete the tour. People remenice about a concert that I wasn&#8217;t a part of: Gene Wilder, Luke Wilson, and Richard Prior. I&#8217;m surprised I wasn&#8217;t part of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}