{"id":400,"date":"2012-07-11T06:32:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T06:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2013-02-05T13:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T13:22:03","slug":"thousand-yard-stare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/thousand-yard-stare\/","title":{"rendered":"thousand-yard stare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thousand-yard stare is defined as a &#8220;limp, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary warrior&#8221;.\u00a0 A term coined after the soldiers returned home from the Pacific battles in WWII with this type of gaze (a characteristic of PTSD). \u00a0I&#8217;m going to use the term to also describe the look westerners develop after being in Southeast Asia for enough time. \u00a0It&#8217;s the ability to stare straight ahead through the midst of crowded streets and markets, absorbing everything around you, but not making direct contact with a single person. \u00a0Direct eye contact with certain people can lead to endless hassling to buy the nearest street hawker&#8217;s trinket, men grabbing your arms to try to lead you to their shops to buy cheap suits or girls, or the endless children that beg you for money. \u00a0If you give a child a dollar, you will feed him for a day.\u00a0 If you give a child a dollar, he will ALSO scream to his friends and you will be surrounded little palms hoping that your generosity has not been extinguished.\u00a0 The thousand-yard stare allows you to avoid the pitfalls of eye contact and continue on your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thousand-yard stare is defined as a &#8220;limp, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary warrior&#8221;.\u00a0 A term coined after the soldiers returned home from the Pacific battles in WWII with this type of gaze (a characteristic of PTSD). \u00a0I&#8217;m going to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/thousand-yard-stare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}