{"id":363,"date":"2009-09-07T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-09-07T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T16:54:19","slug":"dos-donts-and-dont-have-tos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2009\/09\/07\/dos-donts-and-dont-have-tos\/","title":{"rendered":"Do&#8217;s, don&#8217;ts and don&#8217;t-have-tos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re-acclimating to Settle brings with it a bunch of do&#8217;s, don&#8217;ts and don&#8217;t-have-tos, big and small.<\/p>\n<p>Do&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OBEY RED LIGHTS. My god, what a waste of time to sit there waiting for the light to change.<\/li>\n<li>Use the sidewalks. Ay da?<\/li>\n<li>Carry my own groceries. How barbaric.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t cross the street in the middle, weaving between cars. This seems to startle the locals.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t walk in the street. ITS A PEFECTLY GOOD STREET, but nooooo, we have to walk on the sidewalk.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t audibly  make fun of people as you pass them on the street. They can understand me here.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t sing at the top of my lungs while listeing to music at work. Being back in a cube farm is a drag. (Thankfully, singing like this on the bus is apparently still accepted practice here in Seattle.)<\/li>\n<li>Have to answer inane questions about:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;How did you like it? Glad to be back?&#8221;. Again and again&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t-have-tos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t have to answer inane questions about:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Where you from? How many children do you have? How many wives do you have&#8221;. again and again<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>We don&#8217;t have to horde &#8220;small money&#8221; anymore. We are both constantly opening our wallets to find 15 singles, and 5 fives and realizing &#8220;ya know, i don&#8217;t need to do this anymore..&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Horde booze. I nearly had a seizure when kaddee used the _good_ cream liquor in the coffee on Sunday morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>What the hell are you doing? Don&#8217;t waste that in coffee! Don&#8217;t you know how hard it is to get that?!. My god we have to&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.\u00a0 uh, go down the street and buy another bottle. Never mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-acclimating to Settle brings with it a bunch of do&#8217;s, don&#8217;ts and don&#8217;t-have-tos, big and small. Do&#8217;s: OBEY RED LIGHTS. My god, what a waste of time to sit there waiting for the light to change. Use the sidewalks. Ay da? Carry my own groceries. How barbaric. Don&#8217;t Don&#8217;t cross the street in the middle, [&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-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}