{"id":400,"date":"2004-08-09T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2004-08-09T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T02:06:00","slug":"400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"109210418820411302\"><span class=\"post\">Speaking of fucking around with people, here&#8217;s a little trick to do if you&#8217;re ever hanging out in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s say, you&#8217;re hanging out at your favorite mall food court when in walks your favorite celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>(For the sake of example, I&#8217;ll use the name &#8220;Tom.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>You walk up to them, look surprised and then really joyous and say, &#8220;Tom! What&#8217;s up, man!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[give him the Cool Brutha Handshake. No, not really.]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatcho been up to?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*the celebrity will respond joyously and pleasantly as he racks his brain, trying to figure out who you are. Inevitably, he&#8217;ll respond quickly, &#8220;Nothing much, how are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing much.You know, same ol, same ol&#8217;. I haven&#8217;t seen you since that party up in the hills last year. You look GREAT! You still working out a lot?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[small talk, small talk bullshit]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alright, listen, I&#8217;ve gotta run but it was great seeing you. Tell Mary Ann I said hi!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>***************<\/p>\n<p>The key is to act like they should totally know you, like you&#8217;re an old friend and he&#8217;s the asshole for not remembering your name. If you pull off the confident, friendly, I&#8217;m so excited to run into you thing, you&#8217;ll see their face light up like they&#8217;re really happy to see you too, even though in their eyes, you can see they&#8217;re totally confused cuz they don&#8217;t know who the hell you are. And it&#8217;s also important for you to be the one who&#8217;s &#8220;gotta run,&#8221; cutting the conversation short. No more than a few minutes and a few pleasantries.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of funny. <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of fucking around with people, here&#8217;s a little trick to do if you&#8217;re ever hanging out in Los Angeles. So let&#8217;s say, you&#8217;re hanging out at your favorite mall food court when in walks your favorite celebrity. (For the sake of example, I&#8217;ll use the name &#8220;Tom.&#8221;) You walk up to them, look surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-400","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}