{"id":2576,"date":"2008-09-22T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2008-09-22T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T21:14:36","slug":"jumper-cable-guy-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/22\/jumper-cable-guy-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumper Cable Guy is back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jumper Cable Guy was seen on South Main this afternoon.\u00a0 He’s a guy who approaches people, maybe talking on a cell phone as he walks up, looking like he is in need of help.\u00a0 He’ll tell you his truck has broken down several blocks away, and he needs $7 and an odd number of cents for jumper cables.\u00a0 If you tell him you have some he can borrow, he’ll claim that he has a heavy-duty Ford truck and needs bigger ones than what you have.\u00a0 Let’s have a look at Jumper Cable Guy:<\/p>\n

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He was seen approaching a couple near the National Civil Rights Museum plaza this afternoon about 3:30.\u00a0 The couple was stopped afterward and asked what he said… same old story.\u00a0 That truck sure breaks down a lot.\u00a0 Many, many times a day, in fact, if we are to believe Jumper Cable Guy is telling the truth.\u00a0 And surely he wouldn’t lie!<\/p>\n

We ran him out of Downtown this spring by simply yelling, “Hey, Jumper Cable Guy!” loudly every time we saw him.\u00a0 Unable to fly under the radar, he had no choice but to leave the area.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s time to make him leave again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jumper Cable Guy was seen on South Main this afternoon.\u00a0 He’s a guy who approaches people, maybe talking on a cell phone as he walks up, looking like he is in need of help.\u00a0 He’ll tell you his truck has broken down several blocks away, and he needs $7 and an odd number of cents … Continue reading “Jumper Cable Guy is back”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}