{"id":3383,"date":"2006-06-03T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-23T04:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:25:23","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3383","title":{"rendered":"My Crazy Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>My Crazy Man<\/b><br \/>\nFirst off, I&#8217;m not referring to Jon, my wonderful man, with the title above.  True confession time:  I&#8217;m a crazy people watcher.  What am I talking about?  Well, I do enjoy people watching, in general.  But what I really enjoy is to watch, um, unusual folks that I see regularly.  Like my crazy man.  He is a man that I&#8217;ve been watching for years.  I used to see him many times a week while driving to and from the boys&#8217; school.  What an entertaining guy.  He has wild eyes.  And he is always walking faster than everyone else and looking around &#8212; not at the ground or distractedly at nothing like everyone else does.  He looks at the world like he really enjoys seeing it.  I would always know it was him from far away just by the angle of his cap.  Mostly, I used to see him at a bus stop on Page.  (He is the only person that I&#8217;ve ever seen wait there.)  He was almost always singing.  And not just a tune kind of softly, to himself, but like he was on stage in New York.  Belting it out.  Million-dollar smile.  Bringing down the house.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I didn&#8217;t see him for months.  Seriously, I would look for him every day.  And I thought that he was either incarcerated, sick, or dead.  It made me kind of disappointed thinking that I&#8217;d never see him again.  So you can imagine my surprise at seeing him today at the grocery store.  I almost asked him where he had been. It is funny how you can miss someone that you don&#8217;t even know.  But, I did miss him.  And I&#8217;m really glad that he is back.<\/p>\n<p>Sing on, crazy guy.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Crazy Man First off, I&#8217;m not referring to Jon, my wonderful man, with the title above. True confession time: I&#8217;m a crazy people watcher. What am I talking about? Well, I do enjoy people watching, in general. But what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}