{"id":172,"date":"2009-03-21T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2009-03-21T07:30:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T15:30:46","slug":"day-38-topics-of-conversation-that-chinese-people-find-not-at-all-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Day 38: topics of conversation that chinese people find not at all uncomfortable"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Your weight, especially how you look like you&#8217;ve gained some since the last time they&#8217;ve seen you<\/li>\n<li>How much you spent on purchasing your house\/plane tickets\/purse<\/li>\n<li>The small ways in which their child is not living up to their potential<\/li>\n<li>The large and specific ways in which their child is doing things much better and more important that you could ever hope to<\/li>\n<li>Your future, especially when you plan to have children<\/li>\n<li>How hungry you must be, and how you need to eat more, despite how much weight you seem to have gained<\/li>\n<li>Paying a restaurant bill, and how there&#8217;s no way they&#8217;d let you pay for this meal<\/li>\n<li>How much money you make, and certain jobs they&#8217;ve heard about where you could make more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re off to visit my mom soon.  She was doing quite well yesterday, although she seems a bit overzealous in terms of getting off any medical assistance and getting back to normal.  She probably won&#8217;t be able to return to normal work for a few weeks, even after getting out of the hospital, but she&#8217;s such a trooper that I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if she were already worrying about the things she needs to do when she gets back into the office.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll probably grab some lunch on this side of the bridge before we head over.  Does anyone have specific NY places we should try to eat at before we leave town?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got another show tonight that my mom booked for us (a preview of an off-Broadway Hamlet, I believe), so it looks like it&#8217;ll be a pretty full day.  The big win today would be if my mom can finally get some solid food.  She&#8217;s been keeping down her jello and chicken broth, so fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your weight, especially how you look like you&#8217;ve gained some since the last time they&#8217;ve seen you How much you spent on purchasing your house\/plane tickets\/purse The small ways in which their child is not living up to their potential The large and specific ways in which their child is doing things much better and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[90,84,85],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-chinese","tag-food","tag-mom","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}