{"id":1327,"date":"2011-08-18T22:20:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2013-01-06T23:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T21:29:48","slug":"stray-observations-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/stray-observations-ii-1327.html","title":{"rendered":"Stray observations II"},"content":{"rendered":"

(i) Spell it all out: „Watermelon chunks \/ USA \/\/ Watermelon, chunks Great snack for the hot summer ahead. Delicious, mouth-watering. Ingredients: Just Watermelons!!!!! Nothing added, nothing taken off.“ (source<\/em>: Fairway<\/a> price tag $4.85 \/ 1.39 lb)<\/p>\n

(ii) Abundance all around.<\/a> It is too much: strictly speaking of quantities. As if the 2 liters (2.1 Qt) soda bottles weren’t enough or the 8 fl oz (236 ml) of lemon juice, a minimum 500 count of cotton swabs seems excessive even in these parts.<\/p>\n

(iii) A dove bravely ruffling her feathers on the fire escape railing outside my window, unmoved by my ever so encroaching curiousity. Even the birds prove tough New Yorkers<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

(iv) In the Time Warner cableverse, somewhere there is always a Law & Order<\/a> franchise running. 24\/7.<\/p>\n

(v) What does this tell us about the American psyche and what it is longing for<\/a>?<\/p>\n

\"God<\/a>

God is Kung Fu!<\/p><\/div>\n

(vi) The Five Points Mission: „Finding God through martial arts“. Really?<\/p>\n

(vii) E Houston \/ Forsyth St (Sara D. Roosevelt Park<\/a>), late afternoon: A brother with earplugs, smartphone is preaching the gospel, and white middle class America is passing by, rushed, at a distance. In the background kids, playing the game on the basketball court, hazy future deities of sports.<\/p>\n

(viii) Rush hour, Times Square, hopping onboard the 3 Express<\/a> Train, on the local track: a surprise stop at 66th St.<\/p>\n

(ix) Two words I, as a non-native speaker, need to teach my Manhattan-bred, Manhattan-native host: cutting board<\/em> and kitchen knife<\/em>. Seriously, even a Manhattanite needs such lest cutting carrots proves a chore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(i) Spell it all out: „Watermelon chunks \/ USA \/\/ Watermelon, chunks Great snack for the hot summer ahead. Delicious, mouth-watering. Ingredients: Just Watermelons!!!!! Nothing added, nothing taken off.“ (source: Fairway price tag $4.85 \/ 1.39 lb) (ii) Abundance all around. It is too much: strictly speaking of quantities. As if the 2 liters (2.1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,12],"tags":[3,35,17,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}