{"id":96,"date":"2014-10-08T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=96"},"modified":"2014-10-08T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T17:00:15","slug":"a-subway-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"A Subway Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am on my way home and about to negotiate the stairs that will take me to the subway exit at the corner of St Nicholas Ave. I notice a young African American man at the foot of the stairs who turns around and makes eye contact.<\/p>\n<p>He smiles and says to me: Ni Hao (Hello in Mandarin)<\/p>\n<p>Taken aback, I hesitate and then respond &#8211; virtually exhausting my Mandarin vocabulary in the pr<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ocess &#8211; with: Hao (Good)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I decide to continue our conversation and toss back: Ni hao ma? (How are you?)<\/p>\n<p>We smile and share a private joke when he replies: Wo hen hao (I&#8217;m very well)<\/p>\n<p>He is on crutches with a medical boot on his left foot and two flights of stairs to climb to the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on my way home and about to negotiate the stairs that will take me to the subway exit at the corner of St Nicholas Ave. I notice a young African American man at the foot of the stairs who turns around and makes eye contact. He smiles and says to me: Ni Hao [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[14,15,16,22,21,20,17,18,19],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tales","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-onlyinnewyork","tag-blognybox","tag-donald-lee","tag-life-in-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-short-story","tag-snippet"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}