{"id":358,"date":"2006-04-26T21:38:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T04:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=4"},"modified":"2006-04-26T21:38:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T04:38:43","slug":"let-the-inanity-commence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2006\/04\/26\/let-the-inanity-commence\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the inanity commence!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why this blog is here:<\/p>\n

Kaddee, my beloved partner of 10 years, and I are moving from Seattle to Cairo for 2 years starting sometime in August 2006.<\/p>\n

Kaddee was offered a visiting professorship at The American University in Cairo.<\/p>\n

This weblog, and hers (coming RSN) are here to track our mundane, every days lives preparing for the move, and living in, Cairo.<\/p>\n

Including all THE PREP required for the trip.<\/p>\n

For just a little taste of that, stop looking at your computer for a second.<\/p>\n

Take a look around you. Assuming you are at home, look at every single thing you see and realize that every <\/strong>last bit of it must fit into one of 3 categoris<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. S<\/strong>ell<\/li>\n
  2. S<\/strong>hip<\/li>\n
  3. S<\/strong>tore<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Everything. That coffee mug. The books on the shelf. Everything on the walls. The cat\/dog\/ferret. The knick-knacks. (Or as a friend refers to them “shit-knacks”). The smoking monkey you got for Christmas. All of it. Every last bit of it.<\/p>\n

    I find myself looking at everything as I go about my day: Do I bring this? That has<\/strong> to come with us. Can I get one of those<\/strong> once I get to Cairo? Will it be cheaper or more expensive over there or perhaps not available? I am not paying to ship that<\/strong>
    \nI don’t sleep so well anymore.<\/p>\n

    Anyway, all that is how I got here and came to start this blog.<\/p>\n

    Occasionally it might even be interesting or amusing, insh’allah. Whether you are laughing with me or at me, doesn’t really matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Why this blog is here: Kaddee, my beloved partner of 10 years, and I are moving from Seattle to Cairo for 2 years starting sometime in August 2006. Kaddee was offered a visiting professorship at The American University in Cairo. This weblog, and hers (coming RSN) are here to track our mundane, every days lives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}