{"id":315,"date":"2016-11-15T20:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/?p=315"},"modified":"2016-11-15T20:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:48:04","slug":"the-girl-who-cried-roach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/2016\/11\/15\/the-girl-who-cried-roach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Who Cried Roach."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white;margin: 9pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';color: #2d3b45\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A mess of keys jangle in my hands as I search for the one designated for my front door. I finally locate the key and maneuver the old lock just right so it will grant me access to my apartment. Immediately after I open the door my stomach drops as I am greeted by what could only be described as chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/38.media.tumblr.com\/6228573587d4ec5b83d10d8453176ee6\/tumblr_mxwyznfaxF1rbjoeao1_400.gif\" alt=\"Burning apartment gif from google images. \" width=\"345\" height=\"352\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Burning apartment gif from google images.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 9pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';color: #2d3b45\"> The couch has been moved diagonal\u00a0to the window, the coffee table on it&#8217;s side. I see our blinds are crooked; the floor lamp has fallen to the ground. Living in West Campus my first thought is, &#8220;Shit, we&#8217;ve been robbed.\u201d But that quickly dissipates as I look to my left and see and my roommate atop a bar stool with a broom in hand. &#8220;What happened here?&#8221; I ask in disbelief. I see terror in her eyes and her hands are trembling as she responds, &#8220;Roach.&#8221; The roach is the robber.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 9pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';color: #2d3b45\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A mess of keys jangle in my hands as I search for the one designated for my front door. I finally locate the key and maneuver the old lock just right so it will grant me access to my apartment. Immediately after I open the door my stomach drops as I am greeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}