{"id":479,"date":"2011-06-03T18:17:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T01:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/?p=479"},"modified":"2012-11-23T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:07:41","slug":"having-a-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/having-a-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am taking a break for some levity. Humor and having a laugh Is important to our health and well-being. I see something almost on a weekly basis that makes me chuckle. There are two flavors: one that makes me smile and is heart-warming; the other make me shake my head in wonder. An example of the first kind was a grown woman, with ear buds, skipping to the stairs on the BART train platform. It made me think, &#8220;Now there is as person that knows how to have fun and still has a sense of her inner-child.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the other kind that is of the &#8220;What were you thinking?&#8221; variety. Let me set it up by posing a question: How far down does a guy have to wear his pants for it to stop being a fashion statement and becomes indecent exposure?<\/p>\n<p>While walking out of the trainstation after work earlier this week, I noticed a teenager displaying a fullmoon of grey tight breifs just above the waist of his baggy jeans. For a moment, I pondered what defiance of physics he was he employing to keep them from tripping him as they fell completely to the ground. Then I realized, he must be holding on for dear life to the front of his pants with both hands.<\/p>\n<p>He was very fashionable right down to the hoodie with the hood donned. Oh, wait. Maybe, he had another another reason to have the hood hiding his face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am taking a break for some levity. Humor and having a laugh Is important to our health and well-being. I see something almost on a weekly basis that makes me chuckle. There are two flavors: one that makes me smile and is heart-warming; the other make me shake my head in wonder. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[267,268,266,265,269],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-bart","tag-fashion","tag-humor","tag-levity","tag-sagging-pants","count-0","even alt","author-spacecowboy","last"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UALx-7J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}