{"id":172,"date":"2004-07-06T18:39:41","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T18:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2004-07-06T18:39:41","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T18:39:41","slug":"fortune-cookie-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Cookie Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Honeybun and I went to our favorite Chinese food restaurant. Well, my favorite. She doesn&#8217;t like Chinese food. At the end we opened our fortune cookies. I forget what mine said, but hers sounded ominous:<br \/>\n&#8220;You will soon be crossing the great waters.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t sound promising. Crossing A great water sounds like it could be fun. Crossing THE great waters sounds like a final destination. <\/p>\n<p>OK. So one rogue fortune cookie shouldn&#8217;t get you down. Then this past Sunday we went to Breckenridge, Colorado for a family reunion with my Dad&#8217;s family. For lunch we went to another Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal, Honeybun opened her fortune cookie and it said, &#8220;You will soon be crossing the great waters.&#8221; The same damn fortune! <\/p>\n<p>What sick bastard puts that in a fortune cookie&#8230;..twice!  <\/p>\n<p>Stupid fortune cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Honeybun and I went to our favorite Chinese food restaurant. Well, my favorite. She doesn&#8217;t like Chinese food. At the end we opened our fortune cookies. I forget what mine said, but hers sounded ominous: &#8220;You will soon be crossing the great waters.&#8221; That doesn&#8217;t sound promising. Crossing A great water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fortune Cookie Curse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}