{"id":1533,"date":"2008-01-16T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2008-01-22T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T21:04:24","slug":"1533","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1534\" style=\"width: 275px; height: 204px\" height=\"204\" alt=\"P113.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/P113.JPG\" width=\"275\" \/>How was my blind date with Amber? Well, we met for coffee at The Coffee Bean. I was wearing a blue plaid dress shirt tucked into khaki trousers and my emo glasses. She was wearing, um, well, I don&#8217;t know &#8211; I guess I felt like her &#8220;giant flaming skull with eagle wings&#8221; chest tattoo didn&#8217;t really go with her Victoria&#8217;s Secret Valentine&#8217;s Day camisole with hearts all over it. My witty banter was met with her arms crossed &#8211; clearly a bad sign. But then she mentioned how she loved &#8220;High School Musical &#8211; The Ice Tour&#8221;. ME TOO! (Brian Boitano was perfectly cast as Troy Bolton!) Then the reflection of the candlelight flickered in my glasses and I leaned in laughing as she scooted her chair around to my side of the table.\u00a0Later that night, she and I kissed like we&#8217;d never kissed before. (See photo for re-enactment.) Huh? Uhhhhh&#8230;right Mom! That&#8217;s what I <em>meant<\/em> to say. We hugged.\u00a0(No, no, Dad &#8211;\u00a0not now. You&#8217;re going to have to give me that high-five later.) &#8211; Kiran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How was my blind date with Amber? Well, we met for coffee at The Coffee Bean. I was wearing a blue plaid dress shirt tucked into khaki trousers and my emo glasses. She was wearing, um, well, I don&#8217;t know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/?p=1533\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}