{"id":1547,"date":"2002-08-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2002\/08\/28\/my-dream-futon\/"},"modified":"2002-08-28T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-28T06:00:00","slug":"my-dream-futon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2002\/08\/28\/my-dream-futon\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dream Futon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had some complaints recently about not having &#8220;live&#8221; photos. Some people claim that the voyeuristic nature of this site is what makes it entertaining and that I need to buy another &#8220;f***ing&#8221; digital camera. I&#8217;m ordering one today and thus blowing September&#8217;s budget. Until it arrives I will try and be verbosely exhibitionistic.<\/p>\n<p>Last night a friend and I went futon shopping and I purchased one similar to the model above. On viewing today&#8217;s photo nine out of every ten people make the joke &#8220;Does SHE come with it?!&#8221; which is why she was put in the picture in the first place. (&#8220;Oh, you!&#8221; &#8211; The Simpsons). It is small so it will fit through my door and it will be very comfortable for video game playing, football watching, and date groping. <\/p>\n<p>After the successful futon trip, we tried to get a table at the Corner Bistro. The only thing on the menu there is hamburgers and of all the restaurants in Manhattan, it is the only one I go to that I have to wait in line. The line was too long so we went to the White Horse where my friend got a hot dog that promptly made her sick and I got several Guinness. She went home to soothe her stomach and I met up with Colleen to get drunk. Only interesting bit of the night is when a large semi-homeless man walked in to the International Bar and took a cigarette from our table after Colleen told him &#8220;no&#8221;. It happened very quickly and he was gone before I could hang up my cell phone.(That is a very yuppie sentence.) We felt very weird about the whole scene there, so we went to Big Bar to forget about it.<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had some complaints recently about not having &#8220;live&#8221; photos. Some people claim that the voyeuristic nature of this site is what makes it entertaining and that I need to buy another &#8220;f***ing&#8221; digital camera. I&#8217;m ordering one today and thus blowing September&#8217;s budget. Until it arrives I will try and be verbosely exhibitionistic.<br \/>\nLast night a friend and I went futon shopping and I purchased one similar to the model above. On viewing today&#8217;s photo nine out of every ten people make the joke &#8220;Does SHE come with it?!&#8221; which is why she was put in the picture in the first place. (&#8220;Oh, you!&#8221; &#8211; The Simpsons). It is small so it will fit through my door and it will be very comfortable for video game playing, football watching, and date groping. <\/p>\n<p>After the successful futon trip, we tried to get a table at the Corner Bistro. The only thing on the menu there is hamburgers and of all the restaurants in Manhattan, it is the only one I go to that I have to wait in line. The line was too long so we went to the White Horse where my friend got a hot dog that promptly made her sick and I got several Guinness. She went home to soothe her stomach and I met up with Colleen to get drunk. Only interesting bit of the night is when a large semi-homeless man walked in to the International Bar and took a cigarette from our table after Colleen told him &#8220;no&#8221;. It happened very quickly and he was gone before I could hang up my cell phone.(That is a very yuppie sentence.) We felt very weird about the whole scene there, so we went to Big Bar to forget about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}