{"id":63459,"date":"2015-02-15T11:11:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63459"},"modified":"2015-02-15T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T23:52:27","slug":"blasting-the-car-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63459","title":{"rendered":"Blasting The Car Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So when a car pulls up next door in 90035 and starts blaring the horn, is this person disrupting the peace of the community most likely:<\/p>\n<p>* Seventh-Day Adventist<br \/>\n* WASP<br \/>\n* Mormon<br \/>\n* Buddhist<br \/>\n* Middle-Eastern<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, Persians are the most likely group in 90035 to frequently use their car horn (and to bring the police in to settle down a domestic dispute). <\/p>\n<p>I remember this Persian neighbor, when his teenage son wouldn&#8217;t immediately account for some money, began screaming, &#8220;My son&#8217;s a drug dealer!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was inconceivable in my Seventh-Day Adventist upbringing for any parent to scream, &#8220;My son&#8217;s a drug dealer!&#8221;, even if in fact the son was a drug dealer. Where I come from (<A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avondale_College\">Avondale College<\/a>), we tried to keep that stuff quiet, along with the car horn. Growing up an Adventist, we&#8217;d go weeks without hitting our horn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when a car pulls up next door in 90035 and starts blaring the horn, is this person disrupting the peace of the community most likely: * Seventh-Day Adventist * WASP * Mormon * Buddhist * Middle-Eastern In my experience, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63459\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3148,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventist","category-persians","category-picorobertson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63459"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63478,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63459\/revisions\/63478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}