{"id":269,"date":"2011-04-11T19:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzistrauss.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-04-11T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:02:23","slug":"pink-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2011\/04\/11\/pink-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when there is a pink elephant in the room?\u00a0 If the person you are talking to has a big chunk of spinach in his or her teeth do you tell them or just ignore it?\u00a0 What about when someone has a giant pimple that you can tell has been freshly picked at and is oozing blood?<\/p>\n<p>Today at work I saw a coworker with the biggest booger I have ever seen in my life hanging from the end of his nose.\u00a0 He\u2019s not someone I interact with on a regular basis so I felt a little awkward approaching him to let him know.\u00a0 If it was one of my girl friends or closer coworkers it might have been easier.\u00a0 But, I asked myself if I would want to walk around with a huge booger like that hanging from my nose and of course I said no.\u00a0 So I walked up to him and very quietly whispered that he might want to use a tissue.\u00a0 He turned bright red and instantly shielded his nose.\u00a0 I told him it happens to us all and walked away.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure he was humiliated but, at least I prevented him from walking around longer with that monster hanging out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when there is a pink elephant in the room?\u00a0 If the person you are talking to has a big chunk of spinach in his or her teeth do you tell them or just ignore it?\u00a0 What about when someone has a giant pimple that you can tell has been freshly picked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2011\/04\/11\/pink-elephant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pink Elephant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}