{"id":2242,"date":"2009-03-13T20:43:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2009-03-13T20:43:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T20:43:15","slug":"they_say_the_da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"They Say The Darndest Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rode down the elevator this morning with an elderly woman who was chatting amiably with my nurse about how she tutors grade-school kids in basic arithmetic. “It’s so important to know your numbers,” she said. As I’m backing out of the elevator, she looked at me, smiled, and said, “Do you<\/i> know your numbers?”<\/p>\n

Le sigh. Put me in an elevator with some random old lady and there’s a better-than-even chance I’ll emerge a couple minutes later with blog material. Kind of like how the odds for rain improve after you wash your car. I think I replied with something along the lines of “I sure hope so.” I’m not terribly clever early in the morning. I should have said, “Lady, I went to law school so I wouldn’t have to know my numbers.”<\/p>\n

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I rode down the elevator this morning with an elderly woman who was chatting amiably with my nurse about how she tutors grade-school kids in basic arithmetic. “It’s so important to know your numbers,” she said. As I’m backing out of the elevator, she looked at me, smiled, and said, “Do you know your numbers?” […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Aa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}