{"id":104,"date":"2006-11-02T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T07:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/my-landlord\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T17:45:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T00:45:48","slug":"my-landlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/my-landlord\/","title":{"rendered":"My Landlord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, my landlord in the new place is a nice older Chinese woman.  She speaks about 20 words of English, and she&#8217;s a little wonky on top of that.  So, while she&#8217;s quite pleasant, communicatig is a bit of an issue.  She has been in Hong Kong for the last little while.  I think she&#8217;s back in the next week or two.<\/p>\n<p>I was just sitting here thinking that I can look forward to more 20 minute conversations that boil down to &#8220;garbage day is Tuesday.&#8221;  She always circles the point and repeats herself.  That conversation would end up something like &#8220;you can put your garbage in that can, and they have to be taken out Monday, but I&#8217;ll do that, so you should just put your garbage in that can, because its taken away on Tuesday, but don&#8217;t worry because I&#8217;ll take them out on Monday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then it hit me.<\/p>\n<p>My landlord is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MADtv_recurring_characters#Ms._Bunny_Swan\">Miss Swan<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, my landlord in the new place is a nice older Chinese woman. She speaks about 20 words of English, and she&#8217;s a little wonky on top of that. So, while she&#8217;s quite pleasant, communicatig is a bit of an issue. She has been in Hong Kong for the last little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-moving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}