{"id":14466,"date":"2018-06-04T21:34:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T02:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=14466"},"modified":"2018-06-04T22:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T03:00:49","slug":"real-talk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/real-talk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"real talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>straight up, i am the world&#8217;s worst bouncer. bad traits in a bouncer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ambivalence<\/li>\n<li>need to be liked<\/li>\n<li>dislike of confrontation<\/li>\n<li>high voice<\/li>\n<li>few muscles<\/li>\n<li>trepidatious<\/li>\n<li>somewhat prohibitionist take on heavy drinking (newly acquired)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>maybe if all i was doing was truly checking IDs (how it was sold to me), it would work, but also i have to monitor drunkenness and that is straight hellscape. last saturday was a doozy, the highlight being refusing an already wasted guy with no ID from entering and subsequently being yelled at by him. fun. i basically spend my entire shift getting more and more anxious till it&#8217;s over and i go home. v. cool. my #1 coping strategy is blaming the texas alcoholic beverage commission (&#8220;i am so sorry, it&#8217;s just the law&#8221;) and making everyone scared of getting DUIs (&#8220;the cops are out, so it would be a great idea to walk home&#8221;) (literally no one is scared of DUIs).<\/p>\n<p>in boring book news, i kinda hated amy poehler&#8217;s book, <em>yes please, <\/em>which i checked out from the library as an antidote to <em>between the world and me <\/em>(which is awesome but a bit challenging to read while bouncing, where i do 98% of my reading; the remaining 2% in the five minutes before drifting off to sleep). amy poehler is awesome, but this book just did not bite my chain. in fact i felt like biting ITS chain &#8212; at the end, i was like, girl, why did you even <em>write<\/em> this book? it felt like a bunch of time-filling jovial frippery frop about the good life. which is fine? but if that&#8217;s the case, imma need A LOT of juicy SNL gossip to go with it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/05\/books\/book-review-amy-poehlers-yes-please.html\">this review<\/a> kind of sums it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>straight up, i am the world&#8217;s worst bouncer. bad traits in a bouncer: ambivalence need to be liked dislike of confrontation high voice few muscles trepidatious somewhat prohibitionist take on heavy drinking (newly acquired) maybe if all i was doing was truly checking IDs (how it was sold to me), it would work, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14466"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14479,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions\/14479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}