{"id":499,"date":"2007-04-24T01:07:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T08:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2007\/04\/hi-im-socially-awkward\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:32:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:32:50","slug":"hi-im-socially-awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/04\/24\/hi-im-socially-awkward\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi, I&#8217;m socially awkward."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And you&#8217;re not surprised.  A hint would be that I have a blog with over a hundred posts, right?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo, I left the house again last night &#8212; always a big mistake.  This time, instead of spending an entire, horrible showing of RHPS sitting near a college library, playing sudoku on my DS, and being asked directions by the bastard lovechildren of K-Fed and a your standard hollow interior door, I went to a birthday party for someone I know.<\/p>\n<p>That went over well &#8212; and, actually, I have no idea how anyone else at the party felt about me.  I don&#8217;t really care, either.  This is about me, here.<\/p>\n<p>And, about me &#8212; I noticed that I don&#8217;t like to make eye contact last night.  Especially with new people.  And handshakes?  Instantly trigger a greeting response.  I&#8217;m not sure why.<\/p>\n<p>So, um&#8230;yeah.  Let that be a warning, or whatever.  If you hold out your hand for me to shake, I will instantly make a greeting-type noise, while not looking at you at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and then you&#8217;ll probably lose your hand to whatever horrible flesh-eating bacteria I happen to be covered with that day.<\/p>\n<p>No, really.  It&#8217;s best to just never touch me.  I&#8217;m icky, and covered with germs.  So are you, for that matter, but there&#8217;s nothing to be done about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you&#8217;re not surprised. A hint would be that I have a blog with over a hundred posts, right? Yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-83","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}