{"id":4867,"date":"2007-11-21T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4867"},"modified":"2007-11-21T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T14:02:23","slug":"walking_a_mile_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/walking_a_mile_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking a Mile in Someone Else&#8217;s Chappals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m waiting in line at the &#8220;secret&#8221; coffee place I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004391.html\">in a post<\/a> once, on the phone with one of my closest friends.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How are you?  How\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the ankle?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, he asks.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue and mediocre.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wait, WHAT?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wearing a blue dress and it still hurts.  Actually, I officially sound like an Ammachi\/Naniji now, because my hip hurts constantly.  Apparently, three months of limping will do that to you!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smartypants, here I was worried you were \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcblue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as in sad.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tiny bit.  Always am around the <a href=\"http:\/\/anna.typepad.com\/herstory\/2006\/12\/one_thousand_ei.html\">holidays<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you going home for Thanksgiving?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No.  Mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s traveling, no one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What timing for a trip!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6we never really celebrated the holiday. My parents had that typical snarky comeback, you know, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>only Americans would need a special day to be thankful for everything.  Hmmph! We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thankful daily<\/em>!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&#8230;like that.  So it was just a regular day at our house\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macy's_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade\">slightly different TV<\/a> programs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So you have not had this&#8230;tofurkey you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/applications\/SuperPoke!\/2357179312\">sent me<\/a>, on Facebook?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No.  I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat tofu.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You sound sad.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I guess I am, a little bit.  Everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rushing off with a suitcase and while I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really want to travel THIS week, it reminds me that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to be with their family, and that does make me miss home.  This is my first Thanksgiving when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going anywhere.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little depressing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, now you know what a FOB feels like.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m waiting in line at the &#8220;secret&#8221; coffee place I mentioned in a post once, on the phone with one of my closest friends. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How are you? How\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the ankle?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, he asks. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue and mediocre.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wait, WHAT?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wearing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/walking_a_mile_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}