{"id":1437,"date":"2003-07-15T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T06:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/move-you-momos\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:25:25","slug":"move-you-momos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/15\/move-you-momos\/","title":{"rendered":"Move, you momos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>To the group of yuppies walking down 8^th^ Ave., between Pike and Seneca, while I was walking up.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s eight of you, all grouped together in your power suits and nametags, on your way to or from whatever conference you&#8217;re at. Eight, stretched across the entire width of the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there&#8217;s only one of me. And a fairly skinny me, at that. I don&#8217;t take up much space.<\/p>\n<p>So why do <em>none of you<\/em> move enough to let me by? It doesn&#8217;t do any good for me to move to one side or the other, I&#8217;m still faced with a wall of corporate momos that I can&#8217;t get past. Would it kill you to leave a little space for people walking the other direction?<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why I stopped dead in my tracks and watched you all. Not stalking, not trying to be threatening or obnoxious, as your puzzled looks when I stopped seem to imply. Merely waiting for you to get your little group out of my way so I could get home.<\/p>\n<p>Gr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why do <em>none of you<\/em> move enough to let me by? It doesn&#8217;t do any good for me to move to one side or the other, I&#8217;m still faced with a wall of corporate momos that I can&#8217;t get past. Would it kill you to leave a little space for people walking the other direction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}