I don’t understand why the water pressure in my shower doubled in the last week.<\/p>\n
I don’t understand why the Muzak system at work insists on playing the Spice Girls. It’s not 1997 anymore.<\/p>\n
I don’t understand why Obi-Wan calls Anakin “the Chosen One” in the Revenge of the Sith<\/i> trailer when we all know that Dayton Ward<\/a> is the real Chosen One. Though even Dayton might not bring balance to the Force….<\/p>\n I don’t understand why two days after snow and sleet we can have temperatures in the 70s.<\/p>\n I don’t understand why it took William Shatner until the twilight of his career to find the role of a lifetime.<\/p>\n I don’t understand why my phone lines stop working after a heavy rain. And then why they stay out for four or five days.<\/p>\n I don’t understand why my cat’s hair fell out and she grew breasts.<\/p>\n I don’t understand why college basketball is such a religion here to the point where things shut down and the streets empty.<\/p>\n I don’t understand why people who don’t know how to hook the XBoxes up to the Internet think they should hook their XBoxes up to the Internet.<\/p>\n I don’t understand why more people aren’t watching Arrested Development<\/i>. Is its comedy too subtle and too intelligent for the masses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t understand why the water pressure in my shower doubled in the last week. I don’t understand why the Muzak system at work insists on playing the Spice Girls. It’s not 1997 anymore. I don’t understand why Obi-Wan calls Anakin “the Chosen One” in the Revenge of the Sith trailer when we all knowContinue reading “On the Things I Don't Understand”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4093,4118],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-life","tag-philosophy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}