{"id":1632,"date":"2009-06-15T03:33:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T08:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2009-06-15T03:33:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T08:33:16","slug":"flip-shame-op-ed-columnist-cum-laude-in-evading-bandits-nytimescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/15\/flip-shame-op-ed-columnist-cum-laude-in-evading-bandits-nytimescom\/","title":{"rendered":"Flip Shame&#8211;Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; Cum Laude in Evading Bandits &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10. Don\u2019t wear a nice watch, for that suggests a fat wallet and also makes a target. I learned that lesson on my first trip to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Philippines\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=14.5833333333,121.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=14.5833333333,121.0%20%28Philippines%29&amp;t=h\">Philippines<\/a>: a robber with a machete had just encountered a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Japanese language\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_language\">Japanese<\/a> businessman with a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rolex\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rolex.com\/\">Rolex<\/a> \u2014 who now, alas, has only one hand.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/31\/opinion\/31kristof.html?_r=1\">Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; Cum Laude in Evading Bandits &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/a7cae1b2-b6c2-4660-b340-ca17df06ef4b\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10. Don\u2019t wear a nice watch, for that suggests a fat wallet and also makes a target. I learned that lesson on my first trip to the Philippines: a robber with a machete had just encountered a Japanese businessman with a Rolex \u2014 who now, alas, has only one hand. via Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; Cum &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/15\/flip-shame-op-ed-columnist-cum-laude-in-evading-bandits-nytimescom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flip Shame&#8211;Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; Cum Laude in Evading Bandits &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[189,1048,1100,1223,1307,1378,1391,1435],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","tag-asia","tag-op-ed","tag-philippines","tag-rolex","tag-society-and-culture","tag-television","tag-the-new-york-times-company","tag-travel-and-tourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}