{"id":1178,"date":"2003-05-31T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/05\/31\/1178.html"},"modified":"2003-05-31T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2003-06-01T02:00:38","slug":"quick-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/05\/31\/quick-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First, an exchange from lunch the other day (co-workers anonymized for their protection).  We'd been talking about business-class air travel, in the context of a trip to London.  These are not exact quotes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: So what's the difference between first-class and business class?  Are they the same thing under different names?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-worker 1<\/strong>: No, first-class is better.  They give you ... [she casts about for a moment to come up with an example] ... sex!<\/p>\n<p>[general laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-worker 2<\/strong> [who was apparently only half-listening]: Yeah, when you fly Virgin&#8212;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That was about as far as that conversation went.<\/p>\n<p>Entirely unrelatedly, went and sat in the park with Kam this afternoon to read subs.  (Kam was doing photo editing.  I'm sure we looked very cute, in a geeky sort of way, sitting back to back with our matching PowerBook G4s.)  Every so often one of the park's sleek black squirrels would wander close for a minute, eye us with one beady little eye, then hop off.  Kam noted: \"There never has been a superhero called .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. THE SQUIRREL!\"<\/p>\n<p>(It turns out there have been a couple of superheroes with squirrel-related names: The Savage Squirrel, Secret Squirrel, etc.  Still, I like the idea.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, an exchange from lunch the other day (co-workers anonymized for their protection). We&#8217;d been talking about business-class air travel,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}