{"id":29952,"date":"2019-08-20T18:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29952"},"modified":"2019-08-20T18:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:20:39","slug":"briefly-excuse-me-are-you-someone-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29952","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: \u2018Excuse me? Are you someone on TV\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Anonymous-celebrity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29953\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Anonymous-celebrity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Anonymous-celebrity.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Anonymous-celebrity-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I was joking around with the employees of a restaurant just now, I noticed a woman off to the side who was watching but trying not to be conspicuous. She finally came over and spoke.\u00a0<em>\u201cExcuse me,\u201d<\/em> she started, apparently unsure how to ask her question. <em>\u201cAre you someone on TV? You seem like an entertainer I\u2019ve seen somewhere, but I can\u2019t figure out who you are.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0After I laughed and assured her that it has been years since I\u2019ve been on television for anything, she seemed a bit sheepish. She and her daughter are on their way from Ohio to Orange Beach, Ala., for a vacation \u2014 and she was certain she had run across a vacationing celebrity. I found it hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was joking around with the employees of a restaurant just now, I noticed a woman off to the side who was watching but trying not to be conspicuous. She finally came over and spoke.\u00a0\u201cExcuse me,\u201d she started, apparently unsure how to ask her question. \u201cAre you someone on TV? You seem like an <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29952\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7N6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29954,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29952\/revisions\/29954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}