{"id":681,"date":"2007-08-25T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T06:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/25\/thank-god-for-ad-41"},"modified":"2011-02-23T21:07:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:07:12","slug":"thank-god-for-ad-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/25\/thank-god-for-ad-41","title":{"rendered":"Thank god for AD-41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sit down in the train after speeding in a hurry through the town on a mission &#8211; I need to get something for my godson. Suddenly a noisy flock of <em>finnsvenskarna<\/em>, Swedish-speaking Finns, comes trampling down the corridor. Oh no! They sit in the 4+4 seats smack in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>I start digging through my backbag &#8211; I must&#8217;ve brought my earphones, I must&#8217;ve! (I had to make a quick switch of bags in the morning when I realised I couldn&#8217;t fit everything in my other bag.) I finally found them in a pocket I didn&#8217;t remember having.<\/p>\n<p>I have nothing personally against Swedish-speaking Finns, but because the language is &#8220;foreign&#8221; I can&#8217;t block it out as effectively &#8212; the Finnish words in the middle make it worse.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s be honest: they&#8217;re loud. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":-)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I hope you have a nice weekend. I&#8217;ll be in the middle of dogs, horses, kids, and a donkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit down in the train after speeding in a hurry through the town on a mission &#8211; I need to get something for my godson. Suddenly a noisy flock of finnsvenskarna, Swedish-speaking Finns, comes trampling down the corridor. Oh no! They sit in the 4+4 seats smack in front of me. I start digging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-people","category-mobile-phones","category-moblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}