{"id":98,"date":"2008-09-20T21:54:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2008-09-20T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T20:58:15","slug":"social-commentary-5-and-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/social-commentary-5-and-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Commentary 5 and 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Commentary 5 (July 2008):<\/p>\n<p>At the Greyhound bus station:<br \/>\nOne &#8220;nigger&#8221; to another customer at the counter (making appropriate gestures)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have a great body, it would look even better on my phone.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Meaning he wanted to take a picture of her using his phone)<\/p>\n<p>After whatever expression the lady gave him facially, he said laughing:\u00a0&#8220;Just playing with you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Social Commentary 6:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Know Pain&#8221; &#8211; the signboard of some clinic just on the outskirts of Richmond I believe. I suspect it&#8217;s run by some non-native english speakers\u00a0(no offence meant &#8211; probably Asiatic). I wonder how much custom they get with that signboard &#8211; &#8220;Know Pain&#8221; &#8211; indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Commentary 5 (July 2008): At the Greyhound bus station: One &#8220;nigger&#8221; to another customer at the counter (making appropriate gestures) &#8220;You have a great body, it would look even better on my phone.&#8221; (Meaning he wanted to take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/social-commentary-5-and-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}