{"id":132,"date":"2005-07-22T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T14:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/07\/22\/file-that-under-tmi-too-much-informatio"},"modified":"2005-07-22T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T14:44:57","slug":"file-that-under-tmi-too-much-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/07\/22\/file-that-under-tmi-too-much-information\/","title":{"rendered":"File That Under TMI (Too Much Information)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Gassy.<\/P>
\n

That pretty much describes my condition the past few weeks. You may recall a week or so ago that I got sick when meeting Jason for dinner. Since then, I’ve had periodic problems of a similar nature. I think I figured out the reason last night.<\/P>
\n

Since it’s summer, I’ve stopped making oatmeal for breakfast and began eating cereal. At the market, I looked at box after box trying to find the one that could replace the fiber source of my oatmeal. The cereal with the most fiber appeared to be Fiber One (by General Mills). I bought it, it tasted good and I figured I was doing my body good.<\/P>
\n

Well, last night I compared the nutrition information on the box with that of oatmeal…and found that the cereal has more than three times the fiber content of oatmeal. And here I’ve been having heaping bowl fulls of the stuff every morning. I think it may be time to cut back.<\/P>
\n

In other news – or in not-so-reputable news – our fair governor (or should I say, unfair governor) decided to ride Boston’s subway system yesterday to show that he feels safe on it despite the increased terror alert on mass transit. <\/P>
\n

First, I’ve never seen a person look so uncomfortable on the subway in my life. In fact, if it wasn’t for the news cameras surrounding him, I’d think he was one of the “suspicious” people I should be looking out for.<\/P>
\n

Second, it was obvious he is unfamiliar with subway ettiquette because when they showed him on the news last night, the beginning of the footage showed him apologizing to a person before addressing the cameras. From what I could tell he was blocking the door and preventing people from getting on or off the train at the station. <\/P>
\n

Third, Boston (and most major transit-oriented cities) have a newspaper called the Metro. It’s a transit-oriented (and distributed) newspaper geared towards commuters. So, you’d think the reporters for the paper would have at least a tiny grasp of the subway system. Well, this morning they wrote about Governor Romney’s subway ride by saying that he was chatting with green line riders while riding the train from Park Street to Downtown Crossing. Well, I hate to break to them, but the green line doesn’t serve that route. That would be the red line.<\/P>
\n

Fourth, funniest of all, going from Park Street to Downtown Crossing is on stop. In fact, it’s only one city block (from Tremont Street to Washington Street. So, the governor’s method of proving the subway is safe was to go one block and then exit the system, presumably to the safety of the heavily-guarded state house just up the hill.<\/P>
\n

Thanks, governor. I feel better now.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gassy. That pretty much describes my condition the past few weeks. You may recall a week or so ago that I got sick when meeting Jason for dinner. Since then, I’ve had periodic problems of a similar nature. I think I figured out the reason last night. Since it’s summer, I’ve stopped making oatmeal for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}