{"id":43,"date":"2008-08-06T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/06\/my-hair-is-turning-korean\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T18:49:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:49:05","slug":"my-hair-is-turning-korean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/06\/my-hair-is-turning-korean\/","title":{"rendered":"my hair is turning korean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/04\/a-sad-case-of-engrish\/sdc10349jpg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41\"><img src='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/files\/2008\/08\/sdc10349.JPG' alt='Hanguk Alan' width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My hair is turning Korean. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that&#8230; but I&#8217;m tired of being mistaken for a Korean all the time. When will the tourists at Stanford and Harvard realise I&#8217;m not Korean and speak to me in English first? I mean, I&#8217;m glad to take the photos, but sometimes the Korean is way too fast for me to understand. And I&#8217;m sorry, I can&#8217;t get your child into Stanford because I&#8217;m a student there. And no, I will not be your &#8220;sibling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I still have a ways to go, if my hair continues to grow upwards like it is right now, I might transform into a Japanese person instead. Which could be fun. I&#8217;m expecting the back to mulletfy and the front to eventually droop, making me officially drama Korean one day.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should just end all of this, shave my head, and then everyone will realise that I&#8217;m Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;ll probably then be confused for a Tibetan monk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hair is turning Korean. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that&#8230; but I&#8217;m tired of being mistaken for a Korean all the time. When will the tourists at Stanford and Harvard realise I&#8217;m not Korean and speak to me in English first? I mean, I&#8217;m glad to take the photos, but sometimes the Korean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}