{"id":7869,"date":"2019-09-30T04:48:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/are-you-going-back-there\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:04","slug":"are-you-going-back-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/are-you-going-back-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Going Back There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending 3 1\/2 hours enduring the long lines, surly clerks and insane regulations at the department of motor vehicles, I stopped at a toy store to pick up a gift for my son.<\/p>\n<p>I brought my selection, a baseball bat, to the cash register.  \u201cCash or charge?\u201d the clerk asked.  \u201cCash,\u201d I snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Then apologizing for my rudeness, I explained, \u201cI\u2019ve spent the afternoon at the motor vehicle bureau.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShall I gift-wrap the bat?\u201d the clerk asked sweetly, \u201cor are you going back there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>[Original illustration at this number was a duplicate of HolwickID #23503]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending 3 1\/2 hours enduring the long lines, surly clerks and insane regulations at the department of motor vehicles, I stopped at a toy store to pick up a gift for my son. I brought my selection, a baseball bat, to the cash register. \u201cCash or charge?\u201d the clerk asked. \u201cCash,\u201d I snapped. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,296,690,481,6,691],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}