{"id":6,"date":"2007-10-17T17:47:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/2007\/10\/17\/cairo-is-like-a-cat\/"},"modified":"2007-10-28T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T14:48:48","slug":"cairo-is-like-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Cairo is like a cat\u2014\u0627\u0644\u0642\u0627\u0647\u0631\u0629 \u0632\u064a \u0642\u0637\u0629"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo can be graceful and beautiful, suprisingly friendly at some times and strikingly ornery at others.  But boy is it ugly when it gets wet!  Okay, this is a ridiculous metaphor, but whatever.  Last night and this morning, there was some crazy weather here in Cairo:  high winds, thunder and lightning and a pretty substantial amount of rain, particularly for the desert.  I was pretty excited, actually.  I&#8217;ve loved watching thunderstorms since I was a kid in Ohio.  That and fireflies were the two things I missed most when my family moved to California.  Plus, I actually like riding my bike in the rain, too, as long as I&#8217;m not working and it doesn&#8217;t rain for weeks at a time (messengering in Seattle in late fall sucked).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/2007\/10\/17\/cairo-is-like-a-cat\/%d9%85%d8%b4-%d9%86%d8%b6%d9%8a%d9%81\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7\" title=\"\u0645\u0634 \u0646\u0636\u064a\u0641\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/_.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\u0645\u0634 \u0646\u0636\u064a\u0641\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of cats, though, Syphilis (Sy for short), Adrienne&#8217;s cat, was not so fond of the thunderstorms.  She hid in a corner in the kitchen and pissed herself\u2026several times over.  Adrienne gave her a bath, and she calmed down for a while, but then went and hid in her litter box, which is of course a wonderful place for a damp cat to go hang out for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Cairo&#8217;s streets were like a wet Sy in a litter box.  I was all excited to go bike out in the rain, but I quickly discovered how disgusting it was.  I could tell all the stuff splashing up on my shins was not just water, but a year&#8217;s accumated desert sand, diesel dust, partially decomposed trash and who knows what else.  I avoided looking down to find out just how bad it was.  The picture above doesn&#8217;t really do it justice, but I was more filthy after seven minutes of riding in the rain in Cairo than I was after working all day in the rain in San Francisco.  Gross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo can be graceful and beautiful, suprisingly friendly at some times and strikingly ornery at others. But boy is it ugly when it gets wet! Okay, this is a ridiculous metaphor, but whatever. Last night and this morning, there was some crazy weather here in Cairo: high winds, thunder and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[343,340,11,9],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-masr","tag-biking","tag-cats","tag-pollution","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greywoolknickers.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}