{"id":1629,"date":"2012-08-23T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2012-08-23T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:56:52","slug":"rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/rip\/","title":{"rendered":"He just let it rip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The other day I had to go to the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) to renew my parking permit. \u00a0Because parking in the lot of the PPA office costs an arm and a leg, I decided to try to find metered parking around the area. \u00a0After driving the around the block a few times, I finally found a spot. \u00a0If you know how some of the parking works in Philadelphia, you park your car, and then you go to the parking machine and pay for your parking. \u00a0As I’m pulling into the open spot, I see a man on the sidewalk, looking at his phone. \u00a0After pulling into my spot, I get out of the car and I noticed that he had moved only a few feet forward still looking at his phone. \u00a0He happened to be standing about a foot or two past the parking machine. \u00a0I went up to the parking machine to pay for my parking and the man didn’t know I was there. \u00a0How do I know he didn’t notice me? \u00a0All of a sudden I hear a loud noise. \u00a0It was the noise of the wind passing by. \u00a0It was so loud that if he were on the phone, the other person on the other line would say, “What was that?” \u00a0Right after he let it rip, he then noticed I was right behind him at the parking machine. \u00a0What did he do after? \u00a0He just moved right along, staring at his phone, not saying a word. \u00a0I would like to think he was a little embarrassed and didn’t know what to say but maybe he just didn’t care. \u00a0Who knows? \u00a0Oh well, it was outdoors and I didn’t inhale. \u00a0I’m still alive and life goes on. \u00a0Just another day in Philly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I had to go to the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) to renew my parking permit. \u00a0Because parking in the lot of the PPA office costs an arm and a leg, I decided to try to find metered parking around the area. \u00a0After driving the around the block a few times, I finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}