{"id":85,"date":"2004-04-02T18:31:21","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T09:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/02\/5-things\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T08:35:55","slug":"5-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/02\/5-things\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>5 Things I did NOT miss about San Francisco:<\/b><\/p>\n<li\/>Coping with annoyingly high level of California sun-baked flakiness\n<li\/>Nights laboriously spent in living rooms: crowded around the coffee table, doing lines and rehashing same tired club stories\n<li\/>A good half of the people on the street: running around, mumbling to themselves and nodding to lamppost, like they&#8217;re on crack.\n<li\/>The other half: <i>actually<\/i> on crack and\/or clinically insane.\n<li\/>Obnoxious people: talking on their cellphone every-fuckin&#8217;-where, loud enough to let the whole train know how they &#8220;like, so totally hate nancy from accounting&#8221; or &#8220;what&#8217;s his name who did that presentation at the meeting&#8221;.<br \/>And the fact I&#8217;m in heavy keitai withdrawal myself has really little to do with the incredibly strong urge I have to shove their cell down their throat before rinsing it down with whatever&#8217;s left  of their starbuck&#8217;s chai mocha soy latte.\n<p\/><b>5 Things I REALLY missed about San Francisco:<\/b><\/p>\n<li\/>The smell of fresh pine wood: in the morning when walking down 17th St.\n<li\/>Smoking bowls at friends places: on the fire exit of old Victorian houses.\n<li\/>House beats that resolutely stay south of the 130 bpm border: drawing crowds that dance like there&#8217;s no tomorrow but stay until tomorrow.\n<li\/>Sunday brunch: with mimosas and egg benedict on the patio at Luna Piena\n<li\/>Friends: to smoke said bowls and eat sunday brunch with.\n<p>Overall, the Good outweighs the Bad by a wide margin&#8230; though it&#8217;s good to realize some of the things I&#8217;m getting in the bargain by living in Tokyo&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>Now if it only could be the exact same sunny blue skies by the time I return&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Things I did NOT miss about San Francisco&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}