{"id":258,"date":"2003-01-31T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-31T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=258"},"modified":"2003-01-31T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-31T00:32:00","slug":"second-thoughts-and-after-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/258-second-thoughts-and-after-thoughts","title":{"rendered":"Second Thoughts and After Thoughts!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening after work, I went downtown to meet my mother, sister, and brother for dinner. Mom is in town for a Library Convention&#151; at 72 she&#8217;s still going strong. She and my Dad are busier now that they have retired than they ever were when they were working! My sister was in town representing a vendor at the Convention, and my brother came into town for the heck of it.<\/p>\n<p>After dinner I walked up John St. from the Convention Centre to catch the 501 streetcar on Queen St. I was going at my own quick pace with my destination in mind and not paying too much attention to what was going on around me. I&#8217;m like that; I just get into my own little groove in my own little world, and let everything else just go on around me.<\/p>\n<p>Between Adelaide and Richmond, I passed a couple of people. I didn&#8217;t take notice of them as I approached from behind, it being dark and slippery sidewalks and all. But as I got beside them, I heard one of them talking&#151; the voice was familiar! It was <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/talkread.bml?journal=xooz2&#038;itemid=26937\">a certain someone<\/a> I used to know!<\/p>\n<p>I just ignored them and kept walking past. Normally, if it had been someone I knew but hadn&#8217;t seen in quite a while, I would have stopped to say hello and chit-chat and all. Not this time. After all, I had no reason to since she stated so vehemently that she wanted no further contact with me. I wonder if she recognized me as I went by.<\/p>\n<p>Later when I was on the streetcar on my way home, I was thinking maybe I SHOULD have turned and said hello&#8230; nothing more&#8230; just to see what her reaction would have been!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think I&#8217;m the King of Second Thoughts and After Thoughts!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening after work, I went downtown to meet my mother, sister, and brother for dinner. Mom is in town for a Library Convention&#151; at 72 she&#8217;s still going strong. She and my Dad are busier now that they have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/258-second-thoughts-and-after-thoughts\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}