{"id":3876,"date":"2010-10-16T20:09:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T03:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2010-10-16T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T03:09:38","slug":"a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-hollywood-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/10\/16\/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-hollywood-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"A funny thing happened on the way to the Hollywood Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About an hour into last night&#8217;s concert, three tall, broad shouldered guys walk into our aisle. They were dressed in fine sweaters and slacks, well-shaven with short-cropped hair. Think Christian Bale dressed in Ralph Lauren. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they were buzzed. Perhaps they were drunk. But when they came into our aisle to talk to some friends who were sitting in the aisle above us, they didn&#8217;t stop next to us, they stopped on top of us. And they proceeded to have a conversation as if we were part of the furniture. It was the first time in a long time that I had been muscled out of the way. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, it had been too long. I&#8217;d lost track of where we are in our slouch towards Bethlehem. Their entitlement, a product of a culture where physical domination is acceptable, is the exception in the circles in which I run, but it remains the norm in many others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About an hour into last night&#8217;s concert, three tall, broad shouldered guys walk into our aisle. They were dressed in fine sweaters and slacks, well-shaven with short-cropped hair. Think Christian Bale dressed in Ralph Lauren. Perhaps they were buzzed. Perhaps they were drunk. But when they came into our aisle to talk to some friends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}