{"id":7100,"date":"2016-10-27T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2024-01-15T17:59:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:59:40","slug":"america-the-beautiful-the-horrible-the-amazing-the-tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2016\/10\/27\/america-the-beautiful-the-horrible-the-amazing-the-tragic\/","title":{"rendered":"America the Beautiful, the Horrible, the Amazing, the Tragic."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was minding my own business and swigging my beer on a rooftop deck on W 28th St when I was cornered by the Jersey Twins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were both really cute, they had me feeling a little insecure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re talking and getting to know each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m asked what I do for fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I explained that I was roaming around America with a backpack and taking it all in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t think they believed me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one on my left sneered and asked <em>\u201cAnd how is America? Is it beautiful?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His friend, who I favored more: <em>\u201cIs it horrible?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From my left: <em>\u201cIs it amazing?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His friend: <em>\u201cIs it tragic?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t have a good answer for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I was living for how these two bitchy manicured cosmo sipping queens from Jersey were trying to make fun of me \u2026 or flirt with me \u2026 or perhaps both\u2026 and in the process had managed to accidentally sum up the human condition from the roof of the NYC Eagle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They had just made my night<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought about the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I grinned and simply replied \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took my beer over to the edge of the roof and sat down alone wishing that Donald Trump would lose the election, stay in New York City, and build a Great Big Beautiful Wall to keep New Jersey out instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was minding my own business and swigging my beer on a rooftop deck on W 28th St when I was cornered by the Jersey Twins. They were both really cute, they had me feeling a little insecure. We\u2019re talking and getting to know each other. I\u2019m asked what I do for fun. I explained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12177,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/12177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}