{"id":170,"date":"2004-02-04T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T13:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/02\/04\/overheard\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T13:21:42","slug":"overheard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/02\/04\/overheard\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a303'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First day of class today, so I have my notebook from last semester.  I came across a quotation in it, which I wrote down in Union Square in maybe December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey buddy, can you help me out with any change?  I&#8217;m a homeless guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was interesting that this man would call himself &#8220;a homeless guy&#8221; instead of just &#8220;homeless&#8221;.  The former seems more third-person, the way someone with change might refer to a homeless guy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Nives<\/b>: Oh my God, I was just in Webster Center and I saw this homeless guy just sitting out on one of the benches!<br \/>\n<b>Dives<\/b>: What, here?!<br \/>\n<b>Nives<\/b>: Yeah, he had some sign about he like needed work or whatever.  He spelled like every word wrong.  He looked super sketchy, like he was drunk or something, so I called the cops.<br \/>\n<b>Dives<\/b>: God!  In Webster of all places!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First day of class today, so I have my notebook from last semester. I came across a quotation in it, which I wrote down in Union Square in maybe December. &#8220;Hey buddy, can you help me out with any change? I&#8217;m a homeless guy.&#8221; I thought it was interesting that this man would call himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}