{"id":1901,"date":"2024-10-25T14:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2024-10-25T14:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:13:39","slug":"what-i-like-about-the-chinese-is-how-perfunctory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2024\/10\/25\/what-i-like-about-the-chinese-is-how-perfunctory\/","title":{"rendered":"What I like about the Chinese is how perfunctory &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I like about the Chinese is how perfunctory and businesslike, almost professional, they are about transactions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seamlessness of its irrefutabilty makes it ideological<\/p>\n<p>What-aboutism is rampant<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I recently changed my Twitter bio adding &#8220;pacifist&#8221;.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Let me explain.<\/p>\n<p>Approximate generalization<\/p>\n<p>Quasimodo<\/p>\n<p>Venus de Milo was<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>noted for her charms<br \/>\nBut strictly between us<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>You&#8217;re cuter than Venus<br \/>\nAnd what&#8217;s more you&#8217;ve got arms. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Frankfurt beasley. Return to Forever<br \/>\nArt Tatum, night and Day.<br \/>\nLambert kendrixks and Ross<\/p>\n<p>(Self attributed) attributed <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Pacifist is the most tenuous. Not constrained by the part<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>like most qualifiers or ranks or titles, being a pacifist is at the same time the most demanding of follow \u00a0through commitment<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I like about the Chinese is how perfunctory and businesslike, almost professional, they are about transactions.\u00a0 Seamlessness of its irrefutabilty makes it ideological What-aboutism is rampant\u00a0 I recently changed my Twitter bio adding &#8220;pacifist&#8221;.\u00a0 Let me explain. Approximate generalization Quasimodo Venus de Milo was noted for her charms But strictly between us You&#8217;re cuter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2024\/10\/25\/what-i-like-about-the-chinese-is-how-perfunctory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What I like about the Chinese is how perfunctory &#8230;&#8221;<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}