{"id":953,"date":"2026-02-04T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/?p=953"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:12:34","slug":"2-my-friends-older-sister-asked-for-a-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"2. My Friend\u2019s Older Sister Asked for a \u201cFavor\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hadn\u2019t seen her in years \u2014 not since we were awkward teenagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now she opened the door in a silk robe and bare feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCome in,\u201d she said. \u201cI need help with something\u2026 high shelf.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing in that kitchen was above her reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I handed her the box, she didn\u2019t take it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead she said, \u201cYou got tall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then her fingers stayed wrapped around my wrist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn\u2019t seen her in years \u2014 not since we were awkward teenagers. Now she opened the door in a silk robe and bare feet. \u201cCome in,\u201d she said. \u201cI need help with something\u2026 high shelf.\u201d Nothing in that kitchen was above her reach. When I handed her the box, she didn\u2019t take it. Instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}