{"id":3015,"date":"2002-11-10T13:03:59","date_gmt":"2002-11-10T13:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2002-11-10T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2002-11-10T13:03:59","slug":"my-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=3015","title":{"rendered":"MY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we had to go to the Valley for a funeral this morning. We were early, so we stopped at a Starbuck\u0092s near the freeway exit, to sit and relax for a little while before going up to the memorial service and burial.<br \/>\nWhen we walked in, I immediately noticed two Latino kids sitting at a table arguing heatedly. They were dressed in Full Thug; baggy jackets, low-cut t-shirts, identical watch caps; and each had various words in script tattooed up their muscular necks.<br \/>\nMy \u0091threat assessment\u0092 went from yellow to orange, as I watched them and started to follow their loud argument, and violent gesturing. The argument was being held in Spanglish, and while I understand Spanish pretty well, and given some warmup can speak a fair amount, this one had some words that took me some time to mentally translate.<br \/>\n\u0093pointer\u0094?<br \/>\n\u0093set\u0094?<br \/>\n\u0093thread\u0094?<br \/>\n\u0085<u>damn, they\u0092re arguing over how to write a computer program in C.<\/u><br \/>\nTwo years from now, they\u0092ll be wearing polo shirts and Dockers and sitting in a cube somewhere.<br \/>\nAnd <u>that\u0092s<\/u> what I love about this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we had to go to the Valley for a funeral this morning. We were early, so we stopped at a Starbuck\u0092s near the freeway exit, to sit and relax for a little while before going up to the memorial service and burial. When we walked in, I immediately noticed two Latino kids sitting at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}