{"id":547,"date":"2010-12-09T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2010-12-09T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T19:48:16","slug":"who-you-callin-shorty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Who you callin&#8217; shorty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I pointed out an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0101152\/\">actor <\/a>on a commercial to GTB. He just happened to be at the Matador at 21 show we went to in Vegas a few months ago. When I saw him in Vegas, I recognized him immediately and then marvelled at how much shorter he appears in person.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial then prompted a discussion between GTB and me about how many celebrities, particularly men, are surprisingly short. You expect them all to be at least 6&#8242;, but then you see them in person and they aren&#8217;t a lot taller than my husband, who is 5&#8217;8&#8243; (but claims he is 5&#8217;9&#8243;).<\/p>\n<p>So when I visited this <a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahshortguys.tumblr.com\/\">tumbler page<\/a>, which a fellow Jezebel commenter posted, I guffawed at almost every post. I&#8217;m 5&#8217;3&#8243; and 3\/4, which means that any day I&#8217;m wearing shoes, I&#8217;m taller than half these guys. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I pointed out an actor on a commercial to GTB. He just happened to be at the Matador at 21 show we went to in Vegas a few months ago. When I saw him in Vegas, I recognized him immediately and then marvelled at how much shorter he appears in person. The [&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\/547"}],"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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}