{"id":87,"date":"2009-02-28T23:51:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T07:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/?p=87"},"modified":"2019-05-19T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T19:33:06","slug":"sometimes-its-great-to-be-an-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2009\/02\/28\/sometimes-its-great-to-be-an-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes It&#8217;s Great To Be An Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend my wife and I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beachboardwalk.com\/\">Santa Cruz Boardwalk<\/a> and I had a moment of clarity after playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whack-a-mole\">Whac-A-Mole<\/a>. We had run out of tokens, and had already burned through about $20 on various games, but I wanted to play a few more.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, running out of tokens at an arcade\/boardwalk\/midway was one of the worst feelings because it meant embarking on the uphill battle of trying to finagle more money out of my parent\/grandparent; but now, it was just the opposite. I felt a brief moment of dread and then it passed as I put $5 in the token machine and continued playing. How great is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend my wife and I went to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and I had a moment of clarity after playing Whac-A-Mole. We had run out of tokens, and had already burned through about $20 on various games, but I wanted to play a few more. When I was a kid, running out of tokens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}