{"id":10640,"date":"2006-03-29T14:13:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T19:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/29\/like-watching-paint-dry\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:49:14","slug":"like-watching-paint-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/29\/like-watching-paint-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"Like watching paint dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some men test their physical limits, setting aside comfort and safety for their dreams. Others <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/03\/29\/walmat.spring.break.ap\/index.html\">loiter<\/a><br \/>\ntheir way to fame.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait to see the movie based a man trolling Wallymart aisles for 41 hours, avoiding eye contact and shunning conversation. How does it end? He leaves the store, like every other customer.<\/p>\n<p>Much credit to Skyler Bartels. In resisting the urge to leave a store, he landed a literary agent. Not only that, the agent came to him.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I could barricade myself in Target, hide behind window treatments, and subsist on carmel flavored marshmellows. I might even write a few paragraphs inside the changing room. Ah, but who would feed Oedipus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some men test their physical limits, setting aside comfort and safety for their dreams. Others loiter their way to fame. Can&#8217;t wait to see the movie based a man trolling Wallymart aisles for 41 hours, avoiding eye contact and shunning conversation. How does it end? He leaves the store, like every other customer. Much credit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}