{"id":1837,"date":"2008-11-17T14:55:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T19:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2008-11-18T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T21:05:29","slug":"conversation-with-the-security-guard-downstairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/conversation-with-the-security-guard-downstairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with the Security Guard Downstairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked my sister, Frances, to bring lunch to me at work in exchange for giving her a Nokia phone for her trip to Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>Me: Can you let her up?<br \/>\nGuard: No, I can&#8217;t.<br \/>\nMe: (Thinking he&#8217;s kidding, because they do this before). Ha ha.<br \/>\nGuard: She&#8217;s delivering food, right?<br \/>\nMe: Um. She&#8217;s my sister.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually not the first time this happened. Last time it was an ABC friend (Math PhD from MIT) who was a guy, with a bike helmet. A little bit more understandable. But this is a woman.<\/p>\n<p>As my sister has noted, she may be the only delivery person in New York City who does not know how to ride a bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked my sister, Frances, to bring lunch to me at work in exchange for giving her a Nokia phone for her trip to Buenos Aires. Me: Can you let her up? Guard: No, I can&#8217;t. Me: (Thinking he&#8217;s kidding, because they do this before). Ha ha. Guard: She&#8217;s delivering food, right? Me: Um. She&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food","tag-deliverymen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-tD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}