{"id":12278,"date":"2009-06-02T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/infumate.html"},"modified":"2009-06-02T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T08:30:31","slug":"infumate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/06\/02\/infumate.html","title":{"rendered":"Infumate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have never understood what attracts people in New York to outdoor dining. While sitting at a table on a sidewalk I find myself inhaling truck exhaust and bus fumes, and I must occasionally confront a particularly friendly and\/or not-so-friendly self-invited guest.<\/p>\n<p>When I lived on the West Side I vividly remember sitting at an outdoor place and being served a dinner of seafood and a salad, only to have a portion of the salad grabbed by a hungry passer-by who ran off.<\/p>\n<p>Similar incidents have occurred indoors but the invitations that outdoor dining extend to a range of nuisances makes it seem like a phyrric enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>Outdoor dining extends the floorspace of an establishment. Often times when outdoor dining is offered the doors and windows of the caf&eacute; or restaurant are opened wide. Outdoor patrons smoke cigarettes. Whether or not, under the city&#8217;s smoking ban, it is technically legal to smoke at outdoor tables I do not know, but it is a common occurance. With breezes and general air movement this has the effect of turning the indoor part of a place into a smoking establishment.<\/p>\n<p>I recently came home with bloodshot eyes and a smelly shirt and it took me a while to realize that I had been indoors at a place where a half dozen people sitting 3 feet away were smoking like chimneys. It was not as bad as in years gone by, when a few moments spent inside a pub guaranteed that one&#8217;s clothing would smell like an ashtray and one would be teary-eyed from the fumes.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, as a non-smoking barfly I find myself maneuvering around a place, looking for wind-tunnels of clean air, when the doors are open and outdoor patrons light up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","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-infumate","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278","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=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}