{"id":4018,"date":"2010-11-30T14:07:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:21","slug":"the-i-betta-pass-my-neighbour-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-i-betta-pass-my-neighbour-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;I betta pass my neighbour&#8221; generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating discovery of the day, over Chinese food with a group in Lagos: the most popular electric generator here is called the &#8220;<a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/topic.php?uid=143990747455&#038;topic=10688'>I betta pass my neighbour<\/a>&#8220;, alluding to the fact that having one propels you socially above your neighbour who has none. A uniquely Nigerian take on &#8220;[keeping up with the Joneses](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can also apparently direct your exhaust to spew on their house instead of yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating discovery of the day, over Chinese food with a group in Lagos: the most popular electric generator here is called the &#8220;I betta pass my neighbour&#8220;, alluding to the fact that having one propels you socially above your neighbour who has none. A uniquely Nigerian take on &#8220;[keeping up with the Joneses](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses)&#8221;. You can&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-i-betta-pass-my-neighbour-generator\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness-2","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-12O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}