{"id":27,"date":"2017-05-29T20:41:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T00:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mendingmisconceptions.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2017-05-29T20:41:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T00:41:24","slug":"he-acknowledged-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"He Acknowledged Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally posted on February 25, 2015 at 6:41 PM on Blogger.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last Friday night&#8221;, my sister and I went to a Cuban restaurant.\u00a0 Upon taking my sister&#8217;s order, the waiter turns to me with no hesitation and says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was beyond ecstatic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He acknowledged me!&#8221; I stage-whispered to my sister after he left us.<\/p>\n<p>The first time it happened\u2014a waiter acknowledging me\u2014was at a sushi restaurant a few years ago (also with my sister).\u00a0 The guy seemed a little flustered on how to address me, but he did.\u00a0 I think I might have teared up then.<\/p>\n<p>I get that my eyes can be&#8230;\u00a0 startling but were my vision problems not so obvious, most people would not know.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, the waiters go &#8220;And what will she be having?&#8221; And even, sometimes, when I speak up they still talk to the other person.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>            Usually, the waiters go &#8220;And what will she be having?&#8221; And even, sometimes, when I speak up they&#8217;ll still talk to the other person &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,22,29],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-acceptance","tag-daily-life","tag-heartwarming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}