{"id":1753,"date":"2010-03-19T13:49:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:32:57","slug":"a-grey-area-friday-march-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/a-grey-area-friday-march-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grey Area &#8211; Friday March 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1759\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/3033435095_646a63a35c-252x3001.jpg\" alt=\"I make everyone uncomfortable\" title=\"3033435095_646a63a35c-252x3001\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1759\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I make everyone uncomfortable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t watch black and white films&#8230;they make me uncomfortable. And bored.  People look at me like I am nuts when I tell them this about myself.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nAm I un-cultured because I prefer a little color in my life?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSinged,<br \/>\nTechnicolor <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Dear Technicolor,<br \/>\nMaybe you&#8217;re so cultured that you just blew everyone&#8217;s mind.  Black and white movies?  That&#8217;s not any kind of litmus test of refinement.  It just sounds like an excuse for people who won&#8217;t try and learn a foreign language or travel or read the New York Times, so they have come up with some arbitrary thing they can do and use it to make people feel inferior.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nBeware of anyone trying to make judgements about &#8220;sophistication&#8221; and &#8220;culture&#8221;.  As long as you wash your hands after you go to the bathroom, use silverware, read a couple non-Twilght books a year and keep your reality TV conversation to a minimum, you&#8217;re fine.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nPoor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, I can&#8217;t watch black and white films&#8230;they make me uncomfortable. And bored. People look at me like I am nuts when I tell them this about myself. &nbsp; Am I un-cultured because I prefer a little color in my life? &nbsp; Singed, Technicolor &nbsp; Dear Technicolor, Maybe you&#8217;re so cultured that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/a-grey-area-friday-march-19th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Grey Area &#8211; Friday March 19th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}