{"id":657,"date":"2005-10-26T23:04:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T06:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/archives\/657"},"modified":"2005-10-26T23:04:31","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T06:04:31","slug":"thank-goodness-my-parents-dont-have-a-convenience-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Thank goodness my parents don&#8217;t have a convenience store."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I don&#8217;t understand the episode of, &#8220;Without a Trace,&#8221; where the Korean daughter tries to get away from tradition and leaves while the son stays and gets so mad that he ends up killing her. For one thing, I know first-born Asian sons and sticking with the family is our lot in life. Second, I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;d be stupid enough to hit a Korean woman with a stick. You&#8217;d have to use a pipe or something. What if you just pissed her off? (I&#8217;m being silly here and shouldn&#8217;t make light of violence, but I have very good friends who are Korean and we all agree that Korean women frighten us.)<\/p>\n<p>So, I had lamb and couscous at lunch today and it made my stomach hurt. I even bailed on the monthly ham radio meeting and took it easy instead. I mean, that&#8217;s probably the excitement of my week &mdash; or maybe my month &mdash; and I bailed. Heh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I don&#8217;t understand the episode of, &#8220;Without a Trace,&#8221; where the Korean daughter tries to get away from tradition and leaves while the son stays and gets so mad that he ends up killing her. For one thing, I know first-born Asian sons and sticking with the family is our lot in life. Second, I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;d be stupid enough to hit a Korean woman with a stick. You&#8217;d have to use a pipe or something. What if you just pissed her off? (I&#8217;m being silly here and shouldn&#8217;t make light of violence, but I have very good friends who are Korean and we all agree that Korean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank goodness my parents don&#8217;t have a convenience store.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}