{"id":2213,"date":"2009-01-29T08:53:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2009-03-16T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:33:03","slug":"some-thoughts-on-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/some-thoughts-on-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"some thoughts on New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>an unordered list of reflections of life in New Orleans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they don&#8217;t have laundromats in New Orleans, they have washaterias<\/li>\n<li>Uptown is latitudinally south of the downtown<\/li>\n<li>if you ask for water at a restaurant, expect to drink 750mL; glasses here are huge!<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Bob has a visual stake in absolutely every single commercial establishment<\/li>\n<li>while sitting in the bathtub, it&#8217;s entirely possible you&#8217;ll be bitten by a mosquito. in January.<\/li>\n<li>some restaurants &#8220;don&#8217;t do change&#8221; &#8211; they round up<\/li>\n<li>if you don&#8217;t say hello to a stranger, you&#8217;re rude<\/li>\n<li>ZAPP&#8217;S!<\/li>\n<li>directions? don&#8217;t expect a cross street<\/li>\n<li>swagger is synonymous with walk<\/li>\n<li>depending on where you&#8217;re going, you might have to sit tight for a while. In order to let the railroad train pass. &#8220;The tracks&#8221; here routinely control the flow of traffic (pedestrian, bike, car) and they don&#8217;t move fast.<\/li>\n<li>Overheard in New Orleans (OHNO): &#8220;Cold is not the word!&#8221; &#8211; when it&#8217;s 55F with a slight breeze.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an unordered list of reflections of life in New Orleans: they don&#8217;t have laundromats in New Orleans, they have washaterias Uptown is latitudinally south of the downtown if you ask for water at a restaurant, expect to drink 750mL; glasses here are huge! Dr. Bob has a visual stake in absolutely every single commercial establishment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[78,79],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journeys","tag-new-orleans","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-zH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}