{"id":470,"date":"2008-07-04T22:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T05:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=470"},"modified":"2009-07-05T00:20:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T07:20:35","slug":"want-to-be-a-ghetto-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Want to be a Ghetto City?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>So you just started a town and want to be ghetto.&#160; Where do you start?&#160; Drugs?&#160; Guns?&#160; Prostitution?&#160; Maybe those are just too much for you and you want to be a ghetto city without realizing you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being ghetto.&#160; How about legalizing fireworks.&#160; There you go.&#160; You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re one step further to being ghetto.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may know that I despise fireworks.&#160; I can go on and on about the dangerousness of fireworks, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll talk about the sheer annoyance of them.&#160; Now when I say fireworks, I want to exclude the good ones.&#160; The ones done by professionals.&#160; So you cities with fireworks shows and Disneyland are off the hook.&#160; What I am referring to is to the July 4th fireworks show by the inhabitants of these ghetto cities (my neighbors).<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother me as much before a year ago.&#160; It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t until after Caleb was born that my hatred for fireworks grew even more so.&#160; There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big problem when your son, who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sleep well to begin with, has to listen to all your neighbor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crappy fireworks (both legal and illegal).&#160; These large booms and loud whistles don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do well to anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sleep, much less a little one year old is sensitive to most and almost everything.&#160; By the grace of God, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only woken up once, which we attribute to a night terror, but still I hear them fireworks going on and on.&#160; *wave my fist in the air*<\/p>\n<p>Besides having these loud booms and shrieking whistles, many of the inhabitants in Duarte, CA don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to know how to clean up after themselves.&#160; Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you love getting up the next morning having to drive through a bunch of used fireworks?&#160; I just love seeing ashes fly everywhere as my tires go over them.&#160; It is a beautiful sight if you have never seen it. <\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s midnight now.&#160; And fireworks are <strong>still<\/strong> going outside my home.&#160; Duarte, CA is ghetto.&#160; The inhabitants are ghetto =&gt; city is ghetto.&#160; Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just ruining everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sleep and not just Caleb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you just started a town and want to be ghetto.&#160; Where do you start?&#160; Drugs?&#160; Guns?&#160; Prostitution?&#160; Maybe those are just too much for you and you want to be a ghetto city without realizing you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being ghetto.&#160; How about legalizing fireworks.&#160; There you go.&#160; You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re one step further to being ghetto. 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