{"id":2339,"date":"2012-07-15T01:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T08:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2012-07-15T01:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T08:12:41","slug":"still-diggin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2339","title":{"rendered":"Still diggin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/2967978697\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3190\/2967978697_66a2a2b5ed.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/2967978697\/\">Sit<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/\">Random and Odd<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tI found this bad boy in my files today. It made me smile because of the conversation I had to have with this woman before I took her picture.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m killing time outside of the Sacramento Horror Film festival, not really wanting to be there. It wasn&#8217;t my thing, but the ex had volunteered for it and had been taking pictures all day.  I just wanted the kids to be able to meet the two celebs that would be there.  <br \/>\nThere is this beautiful woman sitting in this chair and I&#8217;m standing a ways away smoking a cigarette. I keep staring at her shoes and her tattoo.  Tattoos are not my thing, but she seems to be rocking the tacky top of foot tattoo. She turns around and I must have had this half disgusted, have enthralled look on my face. Realizing this I say hello and tell her I liked her shoes, so much in fact that I wanted to take a picture of them.  She smiled and said, &#8220;Uh sure.&#8221;  I get a picture of the shoes and realize it&#8217;s not the shot I wanted.  <br \/>\nNow this is where it gets weird. <br \/>\n&#8220;Can you cross your leg in a way that I can see the tattoo.&#8221; <br \/>\nShe must have seen my disgust look from earlier, &#8220;Really? thought you didn&#8217;t like it much.&#8221;  Yep. She saw it.<br \/>\nI got called on my shit and I would have to be honest because the knot in my stomach would have it no other way.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. I just don&#8217;t really like tattoos so much and don&#8217;t like roses.&#8221; <br \/>\nYeah, that&#8217;s right there in chapter one of How To Win Friends and Influence People.<br \/>\n&#8220;that came out wrong, I mean it&#8217;s true, but it sounded bitchy and snobby.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe actually laughed and she was nice to me even though outside of saying I liked her shoes, I pretty much insulted her. <br \/>\nWe started talking about photography and how she had done some photo shoots in the past. (I&#8217;m not certain, but I think her photo shoots were R rated, not sure) <br \/>\nBy the end of our conversation we had drug out this chair from a sitting area and aligned it just so it was half pavement and half the entrance to the theater. I must have taken about 30 photos, but it was this one that we both agreed was the hottest of them all.<br \/>\nShe was so sweet when she said, &#8220;it&#8217;s my tacky rose top of the foot tattoo with my sexy shoes.&#8221;  <br \/>\nOh. God.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure she still tells that story.<\/p>\n<p>So lady, if you&#8217;re reading this, I got a tacky tattoo on my foot. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already thinking about my next one. Alyx keeps doodling this infinity symbol with the number 13 on it. It&#8217;s a Taylor Swift thing, but I don&#8217;t care. I&#8217;ve seen this thing on my daughter for about 6 months straight (she draws it on every day) <br \/>\nEveryone knows that 13 is my favorite number (and Kara&#8217;s&#8230;and probably Alyx&#8217;s too now) and it always has and probably always will be.  <\/p>\n<p>Boundless. Forever. <\/p>\n<p>It fits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sit, originally uploaded by Random and Odd. I found this bad boy in my files today. It made me smile because of the conversation I had to have with this woman before I took her picture. I&#8217;m killing time outside of the Sacramento Horror Film festival, not really wanting to be there. It wasn&#8217;t my thing, but the ex had volunteered for it and had been taking pictures all day. I just wanted the kids to be able to meet the two celebs that would be there. There is this beautiful woman sitting in this chair and I&#8217;m standing a ways away smoking a cigarette. I keep staring at her shoes and her tattoo. Tattoos are not my thing, but she seems to be rocking the tacky top of foot tattoo. She turns around and I must have had this half disgusted, have enthralled look on my face. Realizing this I say hello and tell her I liked her shoes, so much in fact that I wanted to take a picture of them. She smiled and said, &#8220;Uh sure.&#8221; I get a picture of the shoes and realize it&#8217;s not the shot I wanted. Now this is where it gets weird. &#8220;Can you cross your leg in a way that I can see the tattoo.&#8221; She must have seen my disgust look from earlier, &#8220;Really? thought you didn&#8217;t like it much.&#8221; Yep. She saw it. I got called on my shit and I would have to be honest because the knot in my stomach would have it no other way. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. I just don&#8217;t really like tattoos so much and don&#8217;t like roses.&#8221; Yeah, that&#8217;s right there in chapter one of How To Win Friends and Influence People. &#8220;that came out wrong, I mean it&#8217;s true, but it sounded bitchy and snobby.&#8221; She actually laughed and she was nice to me even though outside of saying I liked her shoes, I pretty much insulted her. We started talking about photography and how she had done some photo shoots in the past. (I&#8217;m not certain, but I think her photo shoots were R rated, not sure) By the end of our conversation we had drug out this chair from a sitting area and aligned it just so it was half pavement and half the entrance to the theater. I must have taken about 30 photos, but it was this one that we both agreed was the hottest of them all. She was so sweet when she said, &#8220;it&#8217;s my tacky rose top of the foot tattoo with my sexy shoes.&#8221; Oh. God. I&#8217;m sure she still tells that story. So lady, if you&#8217;re reading this, I got a tacky tattoo on my foot. I&#8217;m already thinking about my next one. Alyx keeps doodling this infinity symbol with the number 13 on it. It&#8217;s a Taylor Swift thing, but I don&#8217;t care. I&#8217;ve seen this thing on my daughter for about 6 months straight (she draws it on every day) Everyone knows that 13 is my favorite number (and Kara&#8217;s&#8230;and probably Alyx&#8217;s too now) and it always has and probably always will be. Boundless. Forever. It fits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}