{"id":1034,"date":"2009-06-05T18:53:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T22:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2009-06-05T18:57:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T22:57:53","slug":"notes-on-bodega-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/06\/notes-on-bodega-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Bodega Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"umbrella\"<\/p>\n

If $2 bodega umbrellas are really so crappy, how did mine manage to self-destruct so exquisitely the moment I stepped into the rain today?<\/p>\n

“I bow to the economic miracle,” says the narrator in Chris Marker’s film, Sans Soleil<\/em>. And now I throw it in the trash.<\/p>\n

\"Umbrella<\/p>\n

‘I am proud that we Chinese have the capability to worry about our astronaut,’ said Zhou Qing’an, 26, a PhD candidate at Tsinghua University. ‘Just imagine if we were a poor country and had no advanced technology, then it would not be necessary for us to worry about him at all.’<\/p>\n

\u2013 “China’s New Space Hero Returns,” The Washington Post<\/em>, October 15, 2003.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In repentance for all of our trash, time to make two rainy-day resolutions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Make something I’m proud of<\/li>\n
  2. When I’ve got to buy something, and the alternative is available, buy what looks like someone was proud to make<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    “But what I want to show you,” continues the narrator in Sans Soleil<\/em>, “are the neighborhood celebrations.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \"umbrella\"<\/p>\n

    If $2 bodega umbrellas are really so crappy, how did mine manage to self-destruct so exquisitely the moment I stepped into the rain today?<\/p>\n

    “I bow to the economic miracle,” says the narrator in Chris Marker’s film, Sans Soleil<\/em>. And now I throw it in the trash.<\/p>\n

    \"Umbrella<\/p>\n

    ‘I am proud that we Chinese have the capability to worry about our astronaut,’ said Zhou Qing’an, 26, a PhD candidate at Tsinghua University. ‘Just imagine if we were a poor country and had no advanced technology, then it would not be necessary for us to worry about him at all.’<\/p>\n

    \u2013 “China’s New Space Hero Returns,” The Washington Post<\/em>, October 15, 2003.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    In repentance for all of our trash, time to make two rainy-day resolutions:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Make something I’m proud of<\/li>\n
    2. When I’ve got to buy something, and the alternative is available, buy what looks like someone was proud to make<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      “But what I want to show you,” continues the narrator in Sans Soleil<\/em>, “are the neighborhood celebrations.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,31,50],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-lists","tag-new-york-city","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}