{"id":7,"date":"2004-10-14T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=7"},"modified":"2017-05-10T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:16:01","slug":"i-knew-i-made-it-when-i-saw-the-crab-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/7","title":{"rendered":"I knew I made it when I saw the crab salad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I were dating Abbott, I would begin to think that this was just a fling.  Passive\/agressive; mixed signals; long sighs are making me wonder if Abbott is really into this relationship.  I&apos;m not even an actual employee, for ???&apos;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>I get pampered with a 3rd Quarter Earnings Statement catered lunch, but Abbott doesn&apos;t call me back after I leave him the voicemail message about holiday plans.  Did I scare him away?  Did I come on too strong asking about next year, a presumption about my assumptions about us?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think Abbott doesn&apos;t even remember that I exist.  We&apos;ve been together for a month now, and I&apos;m just not getting the attention I expected.  Sure, I&apos;m thrown side projects and the occasional copy to edit, but this feels like I&apos;m being thrown a bone.  Will Abbott drag this out till we&apos;re both ready to quit it, or will I get dumped after the 4th Quarter Earnings Statement rush?<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Honey, I love you- I do.  I just want to know what you&apos;re thinking.  Are you going to still want to hang out after Christmas break?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I feel whiney when I ask if I&apos;ll be re-contracted in &apos;05.  I really have no complaints otherwise.  I&apos;m being paid well enough to deal with the vague job, but I like knowing what&apos;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>My ability to go from loyal supporter to jumping ship is one I&apos;ve proudly cultured during the past few years.  Don&apos;t make me flex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were dating Abbott, I would begin to think that this was just a fling. Passive\/agressive; mixed signals; long sighs are making me wonder if Abbott is really into this relationship. I&apos;m not even an actual employee, for ???&apos;s sake. I get pampered with a 3rd Quarter Earnings Statement catered lunch, but Abbott doesn&apos;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}