{"id":3810,"date":"2009-04-05T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2009-04-05T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:27:19","slug":"paul-theroux-and-the-elephanta-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"Paul Theroux and The Elephanta Suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Paul Theroux&#8217;s book about India, I couldn&#8217;t help but realize the absurdity of the moment when I was forwarded to a call center in India and the man on the other end of the line was offering me coined, reassuring phrases learned at some English as a Second Language program. A big sigh all the way around for the numbnuts that is United Airlines &#8211; the entire clusterfuck brings a whole new meaning to the word clueless. When the call center clerk said, &#8220;Yes, Ms. Rachel, and David Roos was your traveling companion when you lost your bag?&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t bite my tongue. <\/p>\n<p>A) I didn&#8217;t LOSE my bag &#8211; you took it from me and made me check it because the flight was full.<br \/>\nB) Who the hell is David Roos?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Paul Theroux&#8217;s book about India, I couldn&#8217;t help but realize the absurdity of the moment when I was forwarded to a call center in India and the man on the other end of the line was offering me coined, reassuring phrases learned at some English as a Second Language program. A big sigh all the way around for the numbnuts that is United Airlines &#8211; the entire clusterfuck brings a whole new meaning&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-Zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}