{"id":82,"date":"2006-09-11T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2006\/09\/11\/press-2-for-engrish\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T08:42:09","slug":"press-2-for-engrish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/09\/11\/press-2-for-engrish\/","title":{"rendered":"Press 2 for Engrish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a dental appointment for Thursday a week.  I wonder if I&#8217;ll come back with any teeth?  Even if I don&#8217;t, getting that many extractions for about 10 USD is a bargain (retail price around 40 USD).<\/p>\n<p>Today I had grand plans to shop for cheap pseudo-Scandinavian household goods (at a store I&#8217;ll keep anonymous) in Sha Tin.  Today my Global Environmental Politics class discussed the depletion of forests in Russia for cheap Chinese furniture.  Err.  I re-targeted on the 10,000 Buddhas Monastery (also at Sha Tin), but by the time I&#8217;d gone out to TMTP (Tuen Mun Town Plaza, for the ilacronymate) and come back and bummed around for an hour doing nothing it was too late to head out&#8212;monasteries have closing times (how insensitive!).  I could still go out to Sha Tin and shop, but the weather indoors is pretty cold (normal overpowering air conditioning plus sane outdoor temperatures) and this way I can feel better about myself and ignore the siren song of the Snaf\u00c3\u00bcsfalafelfj\u00c3\u00b8rdling floor mat set.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody is scared of the Philippines (or is being polite about not wanting to go there with me, at least).  I guess the terrorist activity or the travel warning might have something to do with it.  It&#8217;s still tempting and I may not make it to tomorrow without tickets.  I can die anywhere, and Manila can&#8217;t be the worst place to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a dental appointment for Thursday a week. I wonder if I&#8217;ll come back with any teeth? Even if I don&#8217;t, getting that many extractions for about 10 USD is a bargain (retail price around 40 USD). Today I had grand plans to shop for cheap pseudo-Scandinavian household goods (at a store I&#8217;ll keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}