{"id":8279,"date":"2009-02-21T18:52:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T02:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8279"},"modified":"2009-02-21T20:31:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T04:31:34","slug":"a-bit-much-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8279","title":{"rendered":"A Bit Much To Handle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once met this nice girl who made me laugh and I made her laugh and I thought everything was great until she said, &quot;I think you&#8217;re funny and nice, but you&#8217;re a bit much to handle.&quot; And she left my life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had that scenario happen to me dozens of times.<\/p>\n<p>There was a girl I shared Media class with in 10th grade. She was a grade or two ahead of me. I usually felt happy and confident in the class and I talked a lot.<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen years later, she recalled to a friend of mine about me, &quot;Nobody knew what to do with his brain.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The teacher I was closest to at Placer High School was my Journalism advisor. I was the Editor of the school newspaper in my senior year and was in the school&#8217;s journalism program for three years.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote in my yearbook just before I graduated in June 1984, &quot;I&#8217;ve never had a student challenge me as much you have.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Bob emails my friends: &quot;Advisory Team Activate!  Let us all assume the lotus position and focus our healing energy on Luke&#8217;s bruised ego.  Ready? ohhmmmmmm &#8230;.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Khunrum emails: &#8220;Luke still courting Jewish girls? I expected him to be engaged to the Swami&#8217;s daughter by now. Sitting on her lap? Is that some kind of Hindu love move? An obnoxious, middle aged, overweight guy sits on you while you&#8217;re trying to enjoy a&#8230;? Ommmmmmmm!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once met this nice girl who made me laugh and I made her laugh and I thought everything was great until she said, &quot;I think you&#8217;re funny and nice, but you&#8217;re a bit much to handle.&quot; And she left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2968,16347,16348,5192,2967],"class_list":["post-8279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-10th-grade","tag-journalism-advisor","tag-journalism-program","tag-nice-girl","tag-placer-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}