{"id":4905,"date":"2006-06-05T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2022-10-10T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T13:24:25","slug":"god-bless-cabbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4905","title":{"rendered":"God Bless Cabbies"},"content":{"rendered":"

As someone who has pretty extraordinary cross-culturally informative cab rides on an almost weekly basis I LOVED this post<\/a>. (By the way – I had another great cab ride yesterday – the driver told me all about her plans to open up a manicure shop – she told me she had a “rough life” and that she wasn’t really a “college person” although she loved to read – and that she has “worked really hard, and deserves to be the boss of somebody else for a change”. Her nails were spectacular, long and frosty white. She was great.)<\/p>\n

I am a person who has discussed with cab drivers (among other things):<\/p>\n

1. The blowing up of Buddhist statues in Afghanistan (which involved me saying, “Why’d you guys blow ’em up, ya think?” Uhm – “you guys’, Sheila?? Did he do it personally? Good conversaiton though, about religious extremism) This was before 9\/11 too.)
\n2. The tragedy of Mount Ararat<\/a> for the Armenian people
\n3. My Bangladeshi driver’s upcoming arranged marriage<\/a><\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

4. My psychological profile<\/a><\/p>\n

So I totally loved the story she told in that post<\/a> The frustration of all-day traffic gridlock – and then – suddenly – a whiff of beautiful humanity. I love that passenger she describes!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As someone who has pretty extraordinary cross-culturally informative cab rides on an almost weekly basis I LOVED this post. (By the way – I had another great cab ride yesterday – the driver told me all about her plans to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179253,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/179253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}