{"id":163,"date":"2008-04-15T22:47:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T02:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.wordpress.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2008-04-15T22:47:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T02:47:22","slug":"why-i-dont-hate-dc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2008\/why-i-dont-hate-dc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t hate DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping in, as I&#8217;m wont to do, to someone else&#8217;s argument&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/jennieapter\/iWeb\/j2\/Latest_files\/slideshow.html?slideIndex=0\"><\/a><br \/>\nI saw on <a href=\"http:\/\/dcblogs.com\">DCblogs<\/a> that  <a href=\"http:\/\/adrienneroyer.com\/\">&#8220;Girl from the South&#8221;<\/a>, wrote about leaving DC,  a place which just wasn&#8217;t ever really home to her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lacochran.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/not-in-kansas-anymore-dc-sites.html\">lacochran<\/a> and I see it a different way: we love it here.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there&#8217;s room to snark (See, for example: <a href=\"http:\/\/washwords.wordpress.com\/snarkvlark\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/washwords.wordpress.com\/snarkvlark\/)<\/a><br \/>\nbut, on the whole, DC is definitely my home now.<\/p>\n<p>Among the things that STILL make me smile:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How walkable the city is<\/li>\n<li>The fact that my MOM took the S2 bus from Silver Spring into the big city for fun and that I take it from home to work further downtown or up to the burbs myself.<\/li>\n<li>the sheer beauty of the architechture, monuments, layout<\/li>\n<li>the green space<\/li>\n<li>Seeing kids, tourists, young couples (yes, I know I love to snark but not to the nice ones) getting off maps in tow at the Mall, remembering how I did that with my parents.<\/li>\n<li>how smalltown it is &#8211; you can walk down a street and not be wall-to-wall in people and buildings like in new york<\/li>\n<li>the lack of skyscrapers &#8211; it so changes how the city FEELS<\/li>\n<li>the tulips at the Omni Shoreham at Woodley in the spring<\/li>\n<li>the way being on the Hill still reminds me of being 18, interning like so many zillions of others do, the friends I made, the drinks I had at the Dubliner, that youthful exhuberance and sincerely wanting to do well in the world that dies so fast, but lingers longer here<\/li>\n<li>discovering new things everyday &#8211; (what? there&#8217;s a tulip library?  what? there&#8217;s a fishmarket? Cowgirl creamery?)<\/li>\n<li>the emergence and re-definition and NOT redefining permanence of some of the best we have to offer (yep, ben&#8217;s  chili bowl!)<\/li>\n<li>the fighting spirit, the way people talk about politics like other cities talk about sports, the cockiness,  and then, in quieter moments, the &#8220;putting aside of partisan politics&#8221; when it really matters. (yes, I was moved by &#8220;god bless america&#8221; on 9\/11 but I mean the smaller kindnesses and  bendings people make to each other here all the time.<\/li>\n<li>the amazingly talented, inspiring, contentious, controversial, funny, arrogant, angry, delusional, fun, grating people and &#8220;what they do&#8221; (as in &#8220;whaddya do?&#8221; the all-important dcism). yes, i laugh. but with us. not at us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What about you? love dc? hate it? <code><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:washwords.dc@gmail.com\">Tell me about it<\/a> or comment below.<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping in, as I&#8217;m wont to do, to someone else&#8217;s argument&#8230; I saw on DCblogs that &#8220;Girl from the South&#8221;, wrote about leaving DC, a place which just wasn&#8217;t ever really home to her. lacochran and I see it a different way: we love it here. Sure, there&#8217;s room to snark (See, for example: http:\/\/washwords.wordpress.com\/snarkvlark\/) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622],"tags":[94,281,17,335,50,376,53,535,582,41,43,605,1249,46],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-beltway","tag-hate","tag-home","tag-lark","tag-love","tag-monuments","tag-politics","tag-snark","tag-tourists","tag-thats-how-dc-rolls","tag-washington","tag-washwords","tag-words","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}