{"id":8788,"date":"2009-01-12T13:04:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T18:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:58:13","slug":"scanning-monday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8788","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow suspenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, when I was in junior high and really struggling socially, trying to hang onto hope through the cunning use of Ralph Macchio, I tormented myself with questions as to WHY I was so unpopular.  Was it my bad clothes?  My bowl cut?  My braces?  My glasses?  Or was it a combination of all of the above?<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, however, I think the fact that I thought it was fun to take photos like the one below during our free period in junior high (out in public, where anyone could see) probably goes a long way toward explaining my low status.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3220527408_e7d3c400f3_c-e1668000814935.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"567\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183075\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, when I was in junior high and really struggling socially, trying to hang onto hope through the cunning use of Ralph Macchio, I tormented myself with questions as to WHY I was so unpopular. Was it my bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8788\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205707,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions\/205707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}