{"id":1654,"date":"2008-10-11T16:22:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T00:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2008-10-11T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T00:22:46","slug":"three-short-pieces-of-dialogue-from-hte-rupert-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/three-short-pieces-of-dialogue-from-hte-rupert-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Three short pieces of dialogue from the Rupert trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>FLIGHT ATTENDANT<\/p>\n<p>Something to drink?<\/p>\n<p>PASSENGER<\/p>\n<p>Tea please.<\/p>\n<p>FLIGHT ATTENDANT<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, we&#8217;re out of tea.<\/p>\n<p>PASSENGER<\/p>\n<p>Damn these hard economic times.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>PASSENGER ONE<\/p>\n<p>Hi there! Where have you been?<\/p>\n<p>PASSENGER TWO<\/p>\n<p>Travelling around the United States by train.  I made it as far as Arkansas!<\/p>\n<p>PASSENGER ONE<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>PASSENGER TWO<\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230;I did the Arkansas trifecta: the Bill Clinton library, Wal-Mart headquarters and&#8230;and&#8230;what was the other one&#8230;? (scratching head)<\/p>\n<p>PASSENGER ONE<\/p>\n<p>Texas?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>CHECK IN CLERK<\/p>\n<p>Are you staying for two nights with us?<\/p>\n<p>GUEST<\/p>\n<p>No just one.<\/p>\n<p>CHECK IN CLERK<\/p>\n<p>Would you like a casino pass?<\/p>\n<p>GUEST<\/p>\n<p>If I wanted to take my chances, I&#8217;d have stayed here for two nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard&#8230; FLIGHT ATTENDANT Something to drink? PASSENGER Tea please. FLIGHT ATTENDANT Sorry, we&#8217;re out of tea. PASSENGER Damn these hard economic times. \u00a0 &#8212;&#8212;- PASSENGER ONE Hi there! Where have you been? PASSENGER TWO Travelling around the United States by train. I made it as far as Arkansas! PASSENGER ONE Really? PASSENGER TWO Yeah&#8230;I did the Arkansas trifecta: the Bill Clinton library, Wal-Mart headquarters and&#8230;and&#8230;what was the other one&#8230;? (scratching head) PASSENGER ONE Texas? &#8212;&#8211; CHECK IN CLERK Are you staying for two nights with us? GUEST No just one. CHECK IN CLERK Would you like a casino pass? GUEST &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-qG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}