{"id":1390,"date":"2010-12-10T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2010-12-10T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:33:19","slug":"somethings-fishy-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2010\/12\/somethings-fishy-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Something&#8217;s Fishy In Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I email Richard and go into work. It feels like renovated hotel: nice and sunny.<\/p>\n<p>There are English workers here &#8212; women.\u00a0They are uneasy with my revolutionary tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>I have a pleasant conversation with the woman next to me. While I&#8217;m talking with her,\u00a0I get a pithy email from a HR woman diagonal across from me.\u00a0I vault over the cubicle and have a engaging conversation with her &#8212; mostly about where I&#8217;m from.\u00a0I&#8217;m charming and articulate.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m on a\u00a0road-trip\u00a0with a girlfriend visiting England. We drive past the Ontario, Idaho T intersection and take a left; then it becomes beach properties.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re at a Norwegian fishery which has become a mall.\u00a0People ask a shop selling authentic Norwegian subs where the authentic pizza shop is. I realize the pizza shop is a frachise of the shop in Fairfax I like: Mamma Lucia.<\/p>\n<p>Walking up the wide industrial staircase, I try to use the phone to help me speak Norwegian. The phone tells me I&#8217;m doing it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We pass my a handsome man in his late twenties with his attractive girl friend. He takes a picture of her. It results in a fabulous bullet-time picture of himself.<\/p>\n<p>We go into the tourist attraction of the closed down fishery. I try to take a picture. It comes out dim. My phone tells me I&#8217;m doing it wrong and will unnecessarily drain the battery if I continue acting this way. I realize the entire tourist attraction has its lights off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I email Richard and go into work. It feels like renovated hotel: nice and sunny. There are English workers here &#8212; women.\u00a0They are uneasy with my revolutionary tendencies. I have a pleasant conversation with the woman next to me. While I&#8217;m talking with her,\u00a0I get a pithy email from a HR woman diagonal across from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}