{"id":1116,"date":"2008-10-23T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2008-10-23T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:57:07","slug":"reaching-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Reaching Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What this is cockamamie* new &#8220;reach out&#8221; thing, the mot du jour for silly Gen-Xers everywhere (or is it Gen-Yers, whichever ones You-Tube about Obama).<br \/>\nThank you very much, but I&#8217;d rather you not &#8220;reach out&#8221; to me or anyone else.  There is quite enough of that stuff going on these days &#8211; talk to an MBTA cop about their recent subway molester stings.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t mind being contacted, e-mailed, called on the phone or, depending on who it is, visited, with or without notice.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m happy to be sent a letter, a package or a nice bouquet, and it makes me happy when someone whom I haven&#8217;t heard from in a long time gets in touch, figuratively speaking.<br \/>\nIf you are drowning in a hostile body of water, then by all means, reach out to the nearest hand, life preserver or weather buoy.<br \/>\nOtherwise, reach out and touch someone if you must, but please make it someone other than me.<br \/>\n*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/weirdwords\/ww-coc1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">interesting word, from the French <i>d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What this is cockamamie* new &#8220;reach out&#8221; thing, the mot du jour for silly Gen-Xers everywhere (or is it Gen-Yers, whichever ones You-Tube about Obama). Thank you very much, but I&#8217;d rather you not &#8220;reach out&#8221; to me or anyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}