{"id":119,"date":"2010-08-16T17:12:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-08-17T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T02:56:10","slug":"note-to-self-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Note to Self &#8211; Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note #6:\u00a0 Remember to read the fine print about the side effects of taking my anti-malarial drug at night with milk to avoid waking up the following morning with my eyes almost swollen shut and cankles.\u00a0 (Side Note to Self:\u00a0 This is a look even Angelina Jolie couldn&#8217;t pull off. Oy.)<\/p>\n<p>Note\u00a0#7:\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget that the tailors in Forbesgunge are especially good at the game of &#8220;Having Fun at the Foreigner&#8217;s Expense,&#8221; and will capitalize on ignorance in spades.\u00a0 Witness my ordering two simple tunics to be made, which required me to select a neckline.\u00a0 I selected a very simple and conservative neckline from ones that were shown to me, taking for granted that the neckline in back would be equally conservative.\u00a0 Enter tailors with a desire to embarass the unknowing foreigner:\u00a0 very conservative in front; scandalously low scoop in back.\u00a0 Yes, showing too much back is considered obscene here.\u00a0 Well, out go the two tunics.\u00a0 Total cost:\u00a0 $6.<\/p>\n<p>Note #8:\u00a0 I am brilliant to think of packing instant coffee. : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note #6:\u00a0 Remember to read the fine print about the side effects of taking my anti-malarial drug at night with milk to avoid waking up the following morning with my eyes almost swollen shut and cankles.\u00a0 (Side Note to Self:\u00a0 This is a look even Angelina Jolie couldn&#8217;t pull off. Oy.) Note\u00a0#7:\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget that [&hellip;]<\/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-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}