{"id":928,"date":"2017-02-17T19:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T00:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=928"},"modified":"2017-02-23T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:33:14","slug":"do-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Do you know &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a commonly recognized accent often leads to hearing similar illogical thread: Oh, you are from over-yonder-place. Do you know so-and-so. The polite response (&#8220;no, I do not&#8221;) does nothing to dissuade the asker. I suspect most people want to answer &#8220;no, I don&#8217;t bloody know David Beckham. There are fifty three million people in bloody England. You&#8217;re from Atlanta, do you know Usher?&#8221; Which might better get the point across that it is statistically unlikely that I&#8217;d know\u00a0<em>any<\/em> individual from a country none the less a fairly famous one who, I imagine, has a fairly exclusive social circle.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently it isn&#8217;t just accents that prompt this nonsensical assumption. Trump&#8217;s press conference today:<\/p>\n<p>Black journalist: \u201cWill you meet with the Congressional Black Caucus?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump: \u201cI would. You want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he probably thought he was being nice in acquiescing to the meeting. I wish the reporter had responded with a terribly rude and likely honest answer: &#8220;No, they aren&#8217;t\u00a0<em>friends<\/em> of mine. But, as a decently well informed citizen, I\u00a0<em>am<\/em> aware of their existence and wanted to know if you planned to meet with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a commonly recognized accent often leads to hearing similar illogical thread: Oh, you are from over-yonder-place. Do you know so-and-so. The polite response (&#8220;no, I do not&#8221;) does nothing to dissuade the asker. I suspect most people want to answer &#8220;no, I don&#8217;t bloody know David Beckham. There are fifty three million people in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}