{"id":181,"date":"2006-03-23T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2006-03-23T08:56:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T15:56:24","slug":"brushes-with-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Brushes with Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not normally a name dropper (though I did recently regale GTB with the story of the time BFE and I smoked cigarettes on a back porch with Anthony Bourdain), but I know <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/books\/263910_collins23.html\">this guy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I must have met him after the big injury they mention in 2001, because he didn&#8217;t seem like much of a runner then. He seemed more like a heavy drinking Irish guy who could spin quite a yarn about Communist goats living in Ballard and what happens when you split a human body 1,000 times with lasers (&#8220;It&#8217;s not a metaphor!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m glad to see he&#8217;s doing well. And I can&#8217;t wait to read his new book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/books\/263910_collins23.html\">Michael Collins is driven to extremes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not normally a name dropper (though I did recently regale GTB with the story of the time BFE and I smoked cigarettes on a back porch with Anthony Bourdain), but I know this guy. I must have met him after the big injury they mention in 2001, because he didn&#8217;t seem like much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}