{"id":182,"date":"2025-01-26T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/?p=182"},"modified":"2025-01-26T09:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:32:27","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"merry christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>it\u2019s raining this morning and it feels like Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a steady rain.\u00a0 That\u2019s an odd expression.\u00a0 <em>Right as rain<\/em> is not odd. It\u2019s one of my favorites, along with <em>the eyeball is the straightest tool on the job<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>curtains billow.&nbsp; A couple days ago the air was very bad outside due to nearby wildfires.&nbsp; Now the wildfire map shows much less activity in Baja, though I see there are still several fires near Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>such rain sounds!&nbsp; I haven\u2019t heard this since I\u2019ve been here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not lonely.&nbsp; That seems to be a leading concern people have.&nbsp; They think I will forget to interact with people.&nbsp; But I\u2019ve interacted with people more this month than I would have had I been in USA.&nbsp; I have no fears of loneliness here.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the only thing that has at times felt lonely is that I\u2019m in a good mood whilst I imagine people in my former country aren\u2019t in a good mood. Don\u2019t tell me anything about that.&nbsp; Don\u2019t even tell me you\u2019re not telling me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the other day my host said I\u2019m looking much better than when I arrived.&nbsp; To review:&nbsp; (1) last summer she said I looked like a model, (2) when I arrived January 1 she said I was pale and gaunt, and indeed I had lost 10 lbs in the intervening 6 months, (3) last week she said my color was back and I look much better. She seemed to attribute the improvement to Mexico, and Mexican cuisine, which is fair.&nbsp; I attribute it to food but more so to not being in a constant hurry, and not renovating a house 7 days\/week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aside from this rain my favorite sounds have been the crowds and officiating at the nearby sports venue, which has some kind of sporting activity on weekends, I assume it\u2019s soccer.&nbsp; and the boat horns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>one day when I was watching American football there was an event at the nearby sports field and I could hear chants of En-sen-nad-a, En-sen-nad-a, En-sen-nad-a.&nbsp; So it must have been a contest between this town and another, rather than between local high schools.&nbsp; Please don\u2019t be like, \u201cRyan you have to get over there and see the sports!\u201d&nbsp; I\u2019ve been here less than a month and there are lots of things still left to do\/see.&nbsp; I\u2019m not trying to do eight things per day.&nbsp; Thanks for your patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it\u2019s raining this morning and it feels like Christmas. a steady rain.\u00a0 That\u2019s an odd expression.\u00a0 Right as rain is not odd. It\u2019s one of my favorites, along with the eyeball is the straightest tool on the job. curtains billow.&nbsp; A couple days ago the air was very bad outside due to nearby wildfires.&nbsp; Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}