{"id":173,"date":"2015-09-08T22:10:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2015-09-08T22:10:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:10:53","slug":"rant-spitting-in-urinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"RANT: Spitting in urinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies to my female readers. You\u00a0most likely have never witnessed the &#8220;beauty&#8221; of perfectly executed urinal expectorating, and so the topic of this rant may not be of particular interest. For those who are not familiar with the phenomenon, let me elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the men&#8217;s room, doing my thing. A man walks up to the urinal next to me, snorts and snuffles, and then hocks a big one. He then starts to relieve himself, and in mid-stream, leans over and lets fly another glob. He then finishes up, and spits again while zipping his fly. Finally\u00a0he flushes and adds a fourth shot, for good measure, while the water is still running.<\/p>\n<p>I witness such displays (of masculinity?) on a fairly regular basis, and every time, I&#8217;m perplexed. What is the attraction of spitting in a urinal? Does this same man spit outside on the sidewalk every chance he gets? Is it a game, or does he have a cold?<\/p>\n<p>Are any of my readers habitual urinal spitters? Can you possibly enlighten me as to the appeal?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; danBhentschel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies to my female readers. You\u00a0most likely have never witnessed the &#8220;beauty&#8221; of perfectly executed urinal expectorating, and so the topic of this rant may not be of particular interest. For those who are not familiar with the phenomenon, let me elaborate. I&#8217;m in the men&#8217;s room, doing my thing. A man walks up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/?p=173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RANT: Spitting in urinals<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hentschels.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}