{"id":202,"date":"2005-03-02T06:42:45","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T01:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=202"},"modified":"2005-03-02T06:42:45","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T01:42:45","slug":"third-rate-romance-on-union-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2005\/03\/02\/third-rate-romance-on-union-square.html","title":{"rendered":"Third-Rate Romance On Union Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<table WIDTH=\"800\">\n<tr VALIGN=\"TOP\">\n<td align=\"left\">\n<font FACE=\"VERDANA,ARIAL,HELVETICA\" SIZE=\"3\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Thu Mar 02 02:17:55 EDT 2005 --><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica\" SIZE=\"3\"><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>\n<dd>\nIn the back room of a pub on Union Square we saw a husband cheating on his wife.<\/p>\n<p>They read like pages from a regulation third-rate romance story. The obviously wealthy man looked about 60, greased back hair, an Ascot Chang shirt and Coach leather briefcase.<\/p>\n<p>She looked in her 30s, poised but to me uncertain about anything but his hands on her breasts.<\/p>\n<p>His hand broke the surface of her shirt, but the moment was extinguished by a rowdy group of yuppies stumbling in from the Barnes &amp; Noble and occupying three tables across the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>The waitress placed their check on the table. The 30-something woman pointedly pushed the check across the table to the man.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the 45-degree angle created when the tip of her double-jointed finger jammed into the receipt and pushed it over the table.<\/p>\n<p>They left separately, 40 seconds apart. He left first.<\/p>\n<p>Not mysterious, not mentally interesting, not unusual.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the back room of a pub on Union Square we saw a husband cheating on his wife. They read like pages from a regulation third-rate romance story. The obviously wealthy man looked about 60, greased back hair, an Ascot Chang shirt and Coach leather briefcase. She looked in her 30s, poised but to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181-2","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}