{"id":2241,"date":"2012-01-13T05:45:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2012-01-13T05:45:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:45:53","slug":"yo-yo-yo...did-you-say-excuse-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Yo Yo Yo...did you say Excuse Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAround 6:40pm, while leaving a subway train (F\/M at 34th St) yesterday during rush hour, the train exit is blocked with incoming crowd, very usual crowd idiotic behavior (sometimes the conductor had to shout 'let the passengers off first' - just not this time).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo I pumped up my energy and break out with force. My left is a lady and possibly a black guy on the right. Thus, I rammed through between them leaning a little away from the lady.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile standing on the waiting platform, the black guy came to me yelling 'Yo Yo Yo, did you say Excuse me?'. I paused the classical music I was listening to, took out my headphones, and in a low and firm tone replied &quot;You have to let people out first, man&quot; and he just frustratingly murmurred ('what the F... you people are thinking...') and walked back to his train.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThough I was ready for him in all circumstances and I support my calm low tone reaction, I was feeling too much anger. I thank God for teaching me the lesson, a lesson that is not obvious but a lesson acknowledged nonetheless.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs much as we hate the disorder, we are to always first ready to love the people, give them an opportunity to turn around, not hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 6:40pm, while leaving a subway train (F\/M at 34th St) yesterday during rush hour, the train exit is blocked with incoming crowd, very usual crowd idiotic behavior (sometimes the conductor had to shout 'let the passengers off first' - &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}