{"id":1505,"date":"2005-09-05T21:07:40","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T04:07:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From wikipedia, <a href=\\\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faux_pas\\\">faux pas<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>Introducing political arguments in casual conversation. It is common in many countries to discuss politics as chit-chat or smalltalk. In the US, it is rude to bring up the subject in an informal setting. The weather or sports is a more suitable subject.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I never really thought that.  Bringing some politics into a conversation is fine, but to ask someone about their political affiliation is just rude.  But is this why a lot of my meeting-new-people conversations end up so dull?  Somehow I always end up talking about the weather, normally comparing the Bay Area to Pittsburgh.  No sports though, although I can feign an interest in a few spectator sports.<\/p>\n<p>Another popular topic in small talk nowadays is how-we-don\\&#8217;t-want-to-live-in-Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I have been wondering why have I gotten so serious and unfunny in my latest posts.  Always so dramatic, too thought-provoking.  What happened to the days when I would post how I ate a week-old pizza or how I would pretentiously post about how someone called me mean.  Uh oh, I hope this doesn\\&#8217;t mean I am&#8230;.growing up.  I need some of that silly immature action going on.  YO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From wikipedia, faux pas&#8230; Introducing political arguments in casual conversation. It is common in many countries to discuss politics as chit-chat or smalltalk. In the US, it is rude to bring up the subject in an informal setting. The weather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}