{"id":1529,"date":"2009-04-15T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/%e2%80%9ci-want-you-to-throw-a-hot-dog-down-my-hall%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:08:12","slug":"%e2%80%9ci-want-you-to-throw-a-hot-dog-down-my-hall%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/15\/%e2%80%9ci-want-you-to-throw-a-hot-dog-down-my-hall%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI want you to throw a hot dog down my hall.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/style\/hipster-grifter\" target=\"_blank\">from The Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/style\/hipster-grifter\" style=\"color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\">The Hipster Grifter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: 10px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"byline\" style=\"font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: bold\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/author\/doree-shafrir\/\" alt=\"Home page of Doree Shafrir\" style=\"color: #2843b5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">Doree Shafrir<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/style\/hipster-grifter\" style=\"color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold\">April 15, 2009 | 7:00 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely that when Kari Ferrell walked into the\u00a0<em>Vice\u00a0<\/em>magazine offices in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last month to interview for an administrative assistant job, they thought they\u2019d hit the jackpot. Ms. Ferrell\u2014petite, 22 years old, of Korean heritage\u2014had a huge tattoo of a dragon across her chest and a cute pixie haircut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/kari.jpg\" title=\"kari.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/kari.jpg\" alt=\"kari.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was talkative, funny, charming, adorable. She had a tattoo on her back that read \u201cI Love Beards.\u201d She told them she\u2019d been working for the New York office of the concert promotion company GoldenVoice, which puts on huge rock festivals like Coachella near Palm Springs, Calif., and that she\u2019d moved to New York from Utah just a few months earlier.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vice.typepad.com\/vice_magazine\/2009\/04\/dept-of-oopsies-we-hired-a-grifter.html\" style=\"color: #2843b5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">They hired her<\/a>\u00a0on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, one of Ms. Ferrell\u2019s new colleagues came by her desk. \u201cI said, \u2018Excuse me, miss, is [her boss] downstairs?\u2019\u201d the 29-year-old told\u00a0<em>The Observer<\/em>. \u201cShe thought that was very polite that I said, \u2018Excuse me, miss,\u2019 and after that she started talking to me, instant-messaging me. She asked if I was from the South. I told her no. It escalated from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within the space of a half-hour, Ms. Ferrell was peppering him with questions about his sexual history\u2014how many women he\u2019d slept with and so on. \u201cShe was coming on to me, and I was super into it for the first part of it,\u201d he said. \u201cI realized I could have fun after work\u2014but then I was like, \u2018Let me check this girl out.\u2019\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0He Googled her. Up popped a photo of his flirtatious new co-worker on the Salt Lake City Police Department\u2019s Most Wanted list.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/style\/hipster-grifter\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Observer.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer The Hipster Grifter By\u00a0Doree Shafrir April 15, 2009 | 7:00 a.m. It\u2019s likely that when Kari Ferrell walked into the\u00a0Vice\u00a0magazine offices in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last month to interview for an administrative assistant job, they thought they\u2019d hit the jackpot. Ms. Ferrell\u2014petite, 22 years old, of Korean heritage\u2014had a huge tattoo of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}