{"id":361,"date":"2009-08-27T19:59:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T17:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=359"},"modified":"2009-08-27T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T17:59:28","slug":"he-was-like-omg-wtf-and-i-was-all-what-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2009\/08\/27\/he-was-like-omg-wtf-and-i-was-all-what-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He was like &#8216;OMG! WTF?&#8217; and I was all &#8216;what&#8211;ever!'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nice things about living in Egypt is that I couldn&#8217;t understand the myriad of inane conversations that surrounded me.<br \/>\nEven when I learned the tiniest bit of Arabic, it was easy to tune out any meaning from the babble around me.<\/p>\n<p>I could imagine that the people around me were discussing poetry, art and philosophy.<br \/>\nI could imagine that there was depth and texture to the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>I am now surrounded by conversations in my native tongue.<br \/>\nI am no longer able to pretend.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad, that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nice things about living in Egypt is that I couldn&#8217;t understand the myriad of inane conversations that surrounded me. Even when I learned the tiniest bit of Arabic, it was easy to tune out any meaning from the babble around me. I could imagine that the people around me were discussing poetry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}