{"id":285,"date":"2008-04-15T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/15\/how-to-survive-a-staff-meeting"},"modified":"2008-04-15T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T20:47:00","slug":"how-to-survive-a-staff-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/how-to-survive-a-staff-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Survive a Staff Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in a staff meeting ALL STINKIN&#8217; DAY. Yikes. I survived by reading a travel brochure from Kazakhstan &#8211; not a Borat fake, mind you, but the real thing &#8211; and trying to wade through the English translation, which, like most of what Languatron writes, reads like it was composed by a committee of drunken, angry monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to share some excerpts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gourmets from all worlds come also to try here Uzbek plov and to inhale aroma of hot national flat cakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tourists coming to Turkestan, mark that fact, that the smell of slavery as it occurs at a kind of the Egyptian pyramids here is not felt. But an atmosphere of spiritual freedom Ahmed Yassaui&#8217;s mausoleum spreads across all Turkestan the greatest architectural masterpiece.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dry you will not leave a breeze is a draught a body through clothes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are underground labyrinthes &#8211; rooms for a pray, solitudes or listenings of ethnic musical instruments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to services of tourists &#8211; walks on horses, excursions in reserve. For household convenience the shower works. There is a cold and hot water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most famous traditional in the South Kazakhstan is national game Kokpar. Equestrians on their horses should show the best qualities of racing. The person who catch a goat the first will be considered as a winner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kumyz &#8211; it&#8217;s not only delicious drink made of horse milk. It has many curative properties. Propagation of this drink became the basic purpose of a traditional holiday in South Kazakhstan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And all together taken creates the certain power by which air of city is impregnated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You get the idea. I don&#8217;t need to keep impregnating your air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I'vebeen in a staff meeting ALL STINKIN' DAY. Yikes. I survived by reading a travel brochure from Kazakhstan - not a Borat fake, mind you, but the real thing - and trying to wade through the English translation, which, like most of what Languatron writes, reads like it was composed by a committee of drunken,  ... <a title=\"How to Survive a Staff Meeting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/how-to-survive-a-staff-meeting\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Survive a Staff Meeting\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}