{"id":317,"date":"2013-05-08T11:14:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2013-05-08T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:14:51","slug":"a-boy-like-bryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"A Boy Like Bryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being dumped hurts.\u00a0 Being dumped a few minutes before your prom is just devastating.\u00a0 \u00a0But sometimes, when you dejectedly go to the local hamburger joint in your prom dress, a boy named Bryan happens.<\/p>\n

I first heard this story this morning on the radio as I drove back to my office. Bryan Hayes is a server at Jim\u2019s Hamburgers & Hotdogs near Greensboro, NC. \u00a0\u00a0He heard about the 15-year old being dumped before her prom, and came out from behind the counter and asked her to dance.\u00a0 At first there was no music, than a customer appeared with their iPod and \u201cKiss Me\u201d by Faith Hill was playing.<\/p>\n

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Bryan Hayes with the unnamed Prom Girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bryan, a senior, said it was \u201ccheesy\u201d but he hoped it made the girl\u2019s night a little better.\u00a0 When the gushing dj asked if Bryan thought they might start dating, Bryan politely said he didn\u2019t think so.\u00a0 He pointed out that he was a senior in high school and going off to college next year, and this girl was only a freshman in high school.\u00a0 And, as he noted, \u201c15-year old girls are emotionally fragile and it wouldn\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t have to be a love story, although I\u2019m sure some moviemaker will try to make it in to one. All that matters is that this boy, at 17, understood that sometimes, even when you can\u2019t fix everything, you can still ask the girl to dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being dumped hurts.\u00a0 Being dumped a few minutes before your prom is just devastating.\u00a0 \u00a0But sometimes, when you dejectedly go to the local hamburger joint in your prom dress, a boy named Bryan happens. I first heard this story this morning on the radio as I drove back to my office. Bryan Hayes is a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"New Blog Post","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":[3],"tags":[75,77,76],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","tag-bryan-hayes","tag-dancing","tag-prom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UnPK-57","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}