{"id":184,"date":"2005-12-05T14:28:48","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T19:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2005-12-05T14:28:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T19:28:48","slug":"i-want-the-truth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"i want the truth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok, flashback to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/the-electric-company\/show\/2402\/summary.html&#038;full_summary=1\">electric company<\/a>.  my co-worker today was telling me that one time someone mistakenly called her &#8220;ruth.&#8221;  her name is nowhere near &#8220;ruth&#8221; so she was trying to figure out where this person came up with that wrong name for her and i suddenly remembered a short cartoon from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Electric_Company\">electric company <\/a>(or was it on sesame street?) where a cartoon guy with long hair is passionately singing to a bored looking woman and the lyrics of his song are, &#8220;i want the truth, ruth.  all i want, all i want, all i want is the truth, ruth&#8230; gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme give me the truth, ruth&#8230;&#8221; and he ends on a hopeful note, looking at the girl and she mutters, &#8220;my name&#8217;s pearl.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, flashback to electric company. my co-worker today was telling me that one time someone mistakenly called her &#8220;ruth.&#8221; her name is nowhere near &#8220;ruth&#8221; so she was trying to figure out where this person came up with that wrong &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-down-memory-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}