{"id":317,"date":"2012-03-03T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=317"},"modified":"2012-03-03T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:20:45","slug":"hardball-oddball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/03-03-2012\/hardball-oddball\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardball Oddball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a title for you. I think it fits me pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, I obey the speed limit at all times. Try telling that at a party. I got laughed at by a teenager that just got their license. I understand that most don&#8217;t regard this, as many police allow you a little leeway on speed. I don&#8217;t see any need to push it. And, in all honesty, I do go above the limit going down hills and when I try to adjust my speed to allow for an incline, or if the music is fast. However, as soon as I realize that I&#8217;m over the speed limit, I slow down.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I don&#8217;t even like driving that much. I had to be one of the few ones that didn&#8217;t get excited when I got my license. I got it, went back to school, and continued my usual existence. Driving has never really held the mystique (I&#8217;ve always driven Dodges and Fords) for me that it seems to hold for many others.<\/p>\n<p>In school, and still today, I avoid large crowds. I don&#8217;t have much fun at parties and large (and loud) concerts. I prefer smaller, and to use a somewhat antiquated term, intimate gatherings. Ones that only have a small number of people. Obviously, I have to be around a large gathering of people at times, but I don&#8217;t go out of my way to be in those situations. I am not trying to garner as many acquaintances as possible, but instead nurture a more manageable number of relationships.<\/p>\n<p>I know all of that, and other quirks that I have, make me seem odd. But I can deal with that. Actually, I tend to go out of my way to maintain those quirks. My reasoning? It is perhaps best summed up using the lyrics of a song by Wayne Watson. I&#8217;ll leave you to look up the lyrics, but the title will give a good idea, &#8220;More That a Little Unusual.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a title for you. I think it fits me pretty well. For one thing, I obey the speed limit at all times. Try telling that at a party. I got laughed at by a teenager that just got their license. I understand that most don&#8217;t regard this, as many police allow you a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}