{"id":12,"date":"2010-02-12T07:34:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2011-01-30T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T12:38:46","slug":"having-faith-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Having Faith Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>First, this isn&#8217;t a story of a conquest over a lass who was named Faith. I don&#8217;t need to blast my love life all over the Net. But it is a funny story, one that always makes my friends laugh. So, here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago I was seeing a woman from Louisiana. Eventually we broke up in a nasty way and that was that. Until we were boarding the plane to go to Grand Cayman for Pirate&#8217;s Week, that is. As I stepped aboard the plane, there she was, sitting on the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>To make this story short, one thing led to another and we reconnected. Before we knew it we were making out on the floor of my condo. I was doing, uh, some calisthenics (think push ups). Suddenly, I heard her say, &#8220;Oooo.&#8221; It was not a passionate verbalization, but one of surprise. So what is a guy to do. I naturally started wanted to see what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown to me, I was the cause of her surprise. It seems that while we were cavorting, the pendant on my necklace had entered her right nostril. If this had been a Greek Horn of Plenty (so popular back then, though I still don&#8217;t know why), this would not be a problem. But my pendant was an anchor.<\/p>\n<p>So, the anchor did what an anchor does best. It anchored in the side of her nostril. As I rose to see what was happening, it ripped through her nose and tore it wide open, like a knife cut. She was now furious, crying and bleeding profusely. I couldn&#8217;t help but start laughing. It&#8217;s as if the gods had sent this message that we shouldn&#8217;t have picked up where we left off. Or that the girl who had given it to me was reeling it in from Seattle, knowing I was up to no good. back home).<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the moment had passed. Romance was gone. Crying and laughter filled the condo as she gathered her clothes and stormed out the front door. I followed her, of course, offering a towel &#8212; I know, not much of a gentleman as I was still laughing.<\/p>\n<p>She jumped into her car, threw it in reverse and backed out. Then before she left, she threw a bottle of Asti Spumante at me. It hit the pavement and skittered to the base of my feet, unbroken. Like it only happens in the movies. I ended up drinking it later with friends in the Caribbean as we toasted Faith and her new piercing.<\/p>\n<p>Just goes to show that having Faith can really hurt, but not the un-Faithful.<\/p>\n<p>Till another day,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Robb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, this isn&#8217;t a story of a conquest over a lass who was named Faith. I don&#8217;t need to blast my love life all over the Net. But it is a funny story, one that always makes my friends laugh. So, here we go. Many years ago I was seeing a woman from Louisiana. Eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirate-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robzerrvations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}