{"id":1927,"date":"2003-11-07T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/07\/what-the-hells-on-my-doorknob\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:34:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:34:38","slug":"what-the-hells-on-my-doorknob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/07\/what-the-hells-on-my-doorknob\/","title":{"rendered":"What the hell&#039;s on my doorknob?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/11\/graphics\/doorknobgoo1.jpg\" title=\"Doorknob goo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Doorknob goo\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/11\/graphics\/doorknobgoo1-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d just finished getting dressed to head out to the club, when I walked out the door and reached behind me to swing the door shut. When I grabbed the handle, though, something seemed wrong &mdash; it felt slick. Odd. I turned to see if there was actually something there or if I was just fooling myself, and found&hellip;well, I don&#8217;t know what.<\/p>\n<p>The entire doorplate on my door has been covered in some sort of slick goo that I can&#8217;t identify, enough so that the goo has dripped down the front of my door. There&#8217;s a slightly sweet smell that I can&#8217;t identify to the goo, and it appears to be eating through the paint on the door.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the first thing I did was get back into my apartment and wash my hands. I didn&#8217;t want whatever it was to be on my skin any longer than absolutely necessary. After that, I went back out and checked the rest of the doors on my floor to see if any of them had this same thing happening.<\/p>\n<p>Nope. Just my door.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/11\/graphics\/doorknobgoo4.html\" title=\"It eats away at the paint\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It eats away at the paint\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/11\/graphics\/doorknobgoo4-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this has got me somewhat freaked out. And, of course, there&#8217;s nobody I can call or ask about it, as it&#8217;s 11pm on a Friday night. Hardly office hours.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just a prank of some sort? Or something more serious? Am I being targeted directly for some reason? It&#8217;s possible &mdash; with my resum&eacute; online, my address is now public knowledge, and I&#8217;ve discussed my DVD collection, my computers, my CDs, and who knows what all else online in the past. It&#8217;s at least theoretically possible that someone could have tried &mdash; or be planning to try &mdash; to get into my apartment while I&#8217;m away.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what to do now. I&#8217;ve taken these photos, but I&#8217;m not sure if this is enough to make a call to the police. I don&#8217;t really want to leave, just in case it is someone planning on entering my apartment while I&#8217;m gone.<\/p>\n<p>This sucks. And I&#8217;m freaked.<\/p>\n<p>Grrrr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire doorplate on my door has been covered in some sort of slick goo that I can&#8217;t identify, enough so that the goo has dripped down the front of my door. There&#8217;s a slightly sweet smell that I can&#8217;t identify to the goo, and it appears to be eating through the paint on the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}