{"id":5455,"date":"2013-04-18T21:14:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T03:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2013-04-18T21:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T03:18:42","slug":"science-cannot-explain-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5455","title":{"rendered":"Science Cannot Explain Me . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Sam Wo Restaurant, formerly in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Inside Scoop SF)<\/p><\/div>\n

. . . or any other left-handed person<\/a>. Are we “damaged”? Genetically different? Who knows?<\/p>\n

When I was a student at Reed College<\/a>, we often fled south to San Francisco at spring break or other times, “itching to get away from Portland, Oregon.”<\/p>\n

And one day five Reedies squeezed into a booth at the late, legendary Sam Wo Restaurant <\/a>in Chinatown, only to find that we were all<\/em> left-handed. Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n

(However, in the interest of manners, I use a knife and fork left-handed and chopsticks right-handed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . or any other left-handed person. Are we “damaged”? Genetically different? Who knows? When I was a student at Reed College, we often fled south to San Francisco at spring break or other times, “itching to get away from Portland, Oregon.” And one day five Reedies squeezed into a booth at the late, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,115,210],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-food","tag-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1pZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3922,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3922","url_meta":{"origin":5455,"position":0},"title":"Foreclosing on Churches","author":"Chas S. 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