{"id":204,"date":"2010-03-23T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:31","slug":"sit-down-be-quiet-and-polite-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/opinions-on-politics-culture-society\/sit-down-be-quiet-and-polite-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Sit Down, Be Quiet and Polite, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I guess the British Tories are a bit upset about one of their members, one Sir Nicholas Winterton, expressing his dislike of standard class travel as opposed to first class travel. Here&#8217;s the quote from the NYTimes on what he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>&#8220;Sir Nicholas declared in a radio interview, speaking about the relative ghastliness of people in standard-class train cars. &#8216;There\u2019s lots of children, there\u2019s noise, there\u2019s activity. I like to have peace and quiet when I\u2019m traveling.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And they say that he&#8217;s put his &#8220;posh foot&#8221; in his mouth. Really? Um, there&#8217;s nothing worse, in my opinion, that being surrounded by rude, loud people who haven&#8217;t a clue that they should keep themselves and their children quiet, well-mannered, and well-behaved when in public, whether that&#8217;s on a train, on a plane, on a bus, in a car, in a restaurant, in the park, or anywhere else, thank you. I&#8217;m in full agreement with Sir Nicholas. I prefer peace and quiet, too, not screaming kids, blabbering people, blasting music, and people in constant motion, spilling their food and drinks on me and everyone else without a thought to how their actions discomfit me and others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The majority of people <strong><em>are<\/em><\/strong>, as Sir Nicholas said, &#8220;a totally different type of people.&#8221; They&#8217;re rude and could care less that their public brashness makes others unwilling to share the same public space. Public shouldn&#8217;t mean cacophony, chaos, and jostling. Public should mean well-mannered and reserved, respecting the space and sensibilities of others around you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the British Tories are a bit upset about one of their members, one Sir Nicholas Winterton, expressing his dislike of standard class travel as opposed to first class travel. Here&#8217;s the quote from the NYTimes on what he said: &#8220;Sir Nicholas declared in a radio interview, speaking about the relative ghastliness of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3814,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}