{"id":1127,"date":"2010-10-05T18:42:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2010-10-05T18:42:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:42:49","slug":"pick_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2010\/10\/05\/pick_me.html","title":{"rendered":"pick me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tpick<br \/>\npick<br \/>\npick<br \/>\nthinking of that word, the way my mother used it, the way a woman i used to work with used it. \u201cpick me.\u201c who do you pick? why would she pick him? why would he pick her?<br \/>\npick it<br \/>\npick on it<br \/>\npick on him<br \/>\npick him<br \/>\n\u201cpick on\u201c vs pick<br \/>\npick pick pick<br \/>\ni thought of that word, the pick word, when the image of bill gates and his wife melinda briefly flew past on the telebision. the abovementioned woman i used to work with remarked to me that she couldn\u2018t understand why bill gates whould \u201cpick\u201c melinda based on passing observations, arbitrary criteria, white cultural standards. my mother made the same generality, assuming that the man \u201cpicked\u201c the woman. i don\u2018t rmemeber now who she referred to or the circumstance but i remember how pointedly she asked why a certain man \u201cpicked\u201c a certain woman. \u201cwhy would he pick her?\u201c asked in a nasally annoyed voice.<\/p>\n<p>who picks who? whom<\/p>\n<p>PICK is a vulgar sounding word. it seems appropriate that it would be the action of choice for to initiate a relationship, a marriage, a life together<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pick pick pick thinking of that word, the way my mother used it, the way a woman i used to work with used it. \u201cpick me.\u201c who do you pick? why would she pick him? why would he pick her? pick it pick on it pick on him pick him \u201cpick on\u201c vs pick pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-pick_me","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}