{"id":66,"date":"2007-07-23T11:51:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T10:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2015-04-23T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T21:17:11","slug":"butting-in-and-other-forgotten-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2007\/butting-in-and-other-forgotten-details","title":{"rendered":"Butting in and other forgotten details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday: I was first in line for the rapid train for Ikebukuro.\u00c2\u00a0 Consequently, I ended up flat against the opposite door.\u00c2\u00a0 I barely managed to read my Bible, holding it just at the focusing limit of my eyes &#8211; and it&#8217;s a small print edition.\u00c2\u00a0 Then came the stop Jujo, where the doors on the opposite side open.\u00c2\u00a0 I began to wonder how I was going to manage, especially when I saw that someone else wanted to get in.\u00c2\u00a0 I braced myself against the doorframe and pushed my posterior backward, because nothing else could move backward\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; and it worked!\u00c2\u00a0 Somehow there was still room left in that train for another person.<\/p>\n<p>Friday: I&#8217;ve done a bit of fact-checking on the Uyghur arrest, as much as that can be reliably done at all these days.\u00c2\u00a0 It appears the case, regarding one Huseyincan Celil,\u00c2\u00a0is not quite as straightforward.\u00c2\u00a0 For further reading, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huseyincan_Celil\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia site on Celil<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalvoicesonline.org\/2007\/04\/23\/china-blame-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">interesting blog on Celil<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, there&#8217;s always Amnesty International for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.ca\/resource_centre\/news\/view.php?load=arcview&amp;article=3448&amp;c=Resource+Centre+News\" target=\"_blank\">unbiased opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: I filed that entry under food and then remained conspicuously silent about what I ate.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, for lunch I had raw okra with mayonnaise, <a title=\"Tatsuta-age\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humblebeanblog.com\/2013\/03\/chicken-tatsuta-age\/\" target=\"_blank\">tatsuta-age<\/a> chicken bits with mayonnaise, and plums from Yamanashi.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: I noticed that Mizuho, one of the few young people I remember from when I went to that church six years ago, had cut her hair shorter.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes her look sprightlier, and it&#8217;s fun to see what a difference six years can make when they&#8217;re balanced around age 20.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday: I was first in line for the rapid train for Ikebukuro.\u00c2\u00a0 Consequently, I ended up flat against the opposite door.\u00c2\u00a0 I barely managed to read my Bible, holding it just at the focusing limit of my eyes &#8211; and it&#8217;s a small print edition.\u00c2\u00a0 Then came the stop Jujo, where the doors on the opposite side open.\u00c2\u00a0 I began to wonder how I was going to manage, especially when I saw that someone else wanted to get in.\u00c2\u00a0 I braced myself against the doorframe and pushed my posterior backward, because nothing else could move backward\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; and it worked!\u00c2\u00a0 Somehow there was still room left in that train for another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}