{"id":167,"date":"2007-12-02T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=167"},"modified":"2007-12-02T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T02:23:10","slug":"standing-stiffly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Standing stiffly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stiffly1.jpg\" title=\"stiffly1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stiffly1.jpg\" alt=\"stiffly1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just now, T threw a combination Deepavali\/birthday party with a bunch of his relatives. \u00a0It was very nice, and there was an excellent home-cooked meal (including, if I understand correctly, some dried, steamed shark).<\/p>\n<p>Everyone made me feel most welcome. \u00a0I must\u2019ve looked uncomfortable, because several of T\u2019s siblings encouraged me repeatedly to \u2018not be shy\u2019 and to eat lots of food and to make myself at home. \u00a0And I must\u2019ve had the shifty eyes, \u2018cause a couple of times one sister told me \u201cStay out here! \u00a0Your room won\u2019t go anywhere.\u201d \u00a0The truth is that I had a very nice time, but was watching everyone like a hawk trying to figure out proper table manners.<\/p>\n<p>(Mostly people did the eat-with-fingers-of-right-hand thing, except for a few who used a fork and a spoon. \u00a0So, in retrospect, I don\u2019t think I was in much danger of causing offense.)<\/p>\n<p>The highlight (besides the food which was mostly cooked by T and which I can\u2019t speak of highly enough) was the cutting of the cake. \u00a0There were many posed photos during the cutting, and afterwards the siblings lined up and each in turn forked some cake into the birthday boy while photographers called out blocking suggestions. \u00a0I was invited to pose but not, mercifully, to feed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stiffly2.jpg\" title=\"stiffly2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stiffly2.jpg\" alt=\"stiffly2.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stiffly3.jpg\" title=\"stiffly3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stiffly3.jpg\" alt=\"stiffly3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, earlier in the evening everyone pulled up chairs to watch a show featuring Indian Singaporean pop singers. \u00a0I can\u2019t get enough of Indian pop music! \u00a0I\u2019ll have to locate a record store sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just now, T threw a combination Deepavali\/birthday party with a bunch of his relatives. \u00a0It was very nice, and there was an excellent home-cooked meal (including, if I understand correctly, some dried, steamed shark). Everyone made me feel most welcome. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}