{"id":567,"date":"2006-06-21T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2006-06-21T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T21:20:00","slug":"noun-verb-and-adjective-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Noun, verb, and adjective in one."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/1600\/pimp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/400\/pimp.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Some time ago, an unclaimed pair of very stylish sunglasses sat on the counter in the men&#8217;s room near my office.  Even without close observation, one could see that they were of great value.  There are many services offered by my company, but a Lost-and-Found is not one them, so I let them lie there untouched.  Later that day, I saw them being sported by one of the Housekeeping staff, oddly disparate with his dingy uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Months passed as per normal, and I did not realize that I had not seen the housekeeper since that day.  This was made abundantly clear to me today, when I saw this fellow in the corridor wearing the same sunglasses.  There was something different about him, something difficult to place one&#8217;s finger on.  Something about his gait perhaps, or his facial expression?  Or perhaps that he was dressed in full pimp gear, complete with hat, cane, and bright red suit.  I do not use hyperbole when I tell you his outfit looked very much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pimpcostumes.com\/costumes\/Pimp-Suits\/Pimptacular-Red\/76,115\">this<\/a>, but substantially more pimp. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently I missed my chance to don the charmed glasses that would transform me from my mundane self into a natty pimp.  I feel okay about it, though, as I have received mixed reports on whether or not that profession is easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, an unclaimed pair of very stylish sunglasses sat on the counter in the men&#8217;s room near my office. Even without close observation, one could see that they were of great value. There are many services offered by my company, but a Lost-and-Found is not one them, so I let them lie there [&hellip;]<\/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-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}