{"id":1640,"date":"2006-05-03T20:34:53","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2006\/05\/03\/fame-for-the-pagan\/"},"modified":"2006-05-03T20:34:53","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:34:53","slug":"fame-for-the-pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2006\/05\/03\/fame-for-the-pagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fame for the pagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1265'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nMy semi-husband, the <a href=\"http:\/\/baptizedpagan.blogspot.com\">Baptized Pagan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/startsandstops\/blog\/2006\/05\/escalump_2.html\">gets a little fame in the Boston Globe traffic blog.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor these we thank Brian of Cambridge, who obviously rides the Green Line and was raised by whales:<\/p>\n<p>T.Q. (for &#8220;Transfer Quotient&#8221;): the ability to choose a spot on your current train which best positions you to transfer to your next train<\/p>\n<p>Expresspair: a unique form of despair that comes when you realize a Green Line car is an express and will not be stopping to pick you up &#8212; despite the rain.<\/p>\n<p>T-ear: the ability to understand and translate to fellow passengers the garbled sounds of MBTA announcements. A trait among native New Englanders who, due to freak accidents, were raised by whales.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My semi-husband, the Baptized Pagan, gets a little fame in the Boston Globe traffic blog. For these we thank Brian of Cambridge, who obviously rides the Green Line and was raised by whales: T.Q. (for &#8220;Transfer Quotient&#8221;): the ability to choose a spot on your current train which best positions you to transfer to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontheweb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-qs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}