{"id":176,"date":"2007-02-20T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/fun-day\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:10:13","slug":"fun-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/fun-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I started the day with a root canal.  Which is always fun.  A couple hours later I was back at the dentist because the temporary filling they put in the tooth fell out.<br \/>\nGot that fixed and headed over to the DMV to get a new license.  While I am waiting my turn, I was number 55 and they were on 30, some guys across the room start yelling at each other.  Things were thrown out there like, &#8220;hey we speak English in this country!&#8221; to which the other guys yelled something back in Spanish.  Then the (of course) white guy start spewing profanities.  It was getting ugly and I thought it might be time to head on out when the Hispanic group of guys got up and left.  I just sat there, embarrassed. Ugh.  People. You find all kinds at the DMV. I ended up sticking it out and leaving with yet another ugly drivers license picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I started the day with a root canal. Which is always fun. A couple hours later I was back at the dentist because the temporary filling they put in the tooth fell out. Got that fixed and headed over to the DMV to get a new license. While I am waiting my turn, I was number 55 and they were on 30, some guys across the room start yelling at each other. Things were thrown out there like, &#8220;hey we speak English in this country!&#8221; to which the other guys yelled something back in Spanish. Then the (of course) white guy start spewing profanities. It was getting ugly and I thought it might be time to head on out when the Hispanic group of guys got up and left. I just sat there, embarrassed. Ugh. People. You find all kinds at the DMV. I ended up sticking it out and leaving with yet another ugly drivers license picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20904,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/20904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}