{"id":345,"date":"2004-08-10T07:11:26","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=345"},"modified":"2004-08-10T07:11:26","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T15:11:26","slug":"busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/08\/10\/busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bazar_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/bazar_sm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe Bazar Fez is owned by Matt&#8217;s home stay family.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/bazar.html\">View larger image<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arrested_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/arrested_sm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"185\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/arrested.html\">View larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The other day, Karen, Chris\u00c3\u00ads mom, introduced me to a family friend as Chris\u00c3\u00ads boss. I kinda like the sound of it, but you know times have changed since I was his age. If you told me to do something I\u00c3\u00add jump up, salute, click my heels and then run off to complete the task. <\/p>\n<p>Nowadays,  I\u00c3\u00adm reminded of our friend Dan&#8217;s marriage to Linda.  Dan brought one son to the marriage;  Linda,  two daughters.  Her youngest daughter, Rebecca,  at maybe five or six, sized-up this new authority figure and said, \u00c3\u00acYou are not the boss of me.\u00c3\u00ae That\u00c3\u00ads pretty much how it is these days. <\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00acChris, could you please get the can of brown stain from the back of the truck? If you do I\u00c3\u00adll buy lunch and give you a raise\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00acWhat do you think I am? A dog and you\u00c3\u00adre playing fetch?\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I too thought that was a pretty snappy comeback, but I got that last laugh. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll explain how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bazar Fez is owned by Matt&#8217;s home stay family. View larger image View larger image The other day, Karen, Chris\u00c3\u00ads mom, introduced me to a family friend as Chris\u00c3\u00ads boss. I kinda like the sound of it, but you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/08\/10\/busted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}