{"id":2294,"date":"2026-05-30T02:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T02:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/30\/at-20-i-landed-in-sydney-with-two-cheap-suits-and-no-idea-how-to-hold-a-fork-today-i-b\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:21:07","slug":"at-20-i-landed-in-sydney-with-two-cheap-suits-and-no-idea-how-to-hold-a-fork-today-i-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/30\/at-20-i-landed-in-sydney-with-two-cheap-suits-and-no-idea-how-to-hold-a-fork-today-i-b\/","title":{"rendered":"At 20 I landed in Sydney with two cheap suits and no idea how to hold a fork. Today I b&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 20 I landed in Sydney with two cheap suits and no idea how to hold a fork. Today I buy my son the suit I once only saw on other people. That is not luck. That is 30 years of showing up.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2060552926125555781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 20 I landed in Sydney with two cheap suits and no idea how to hold a fork. Today I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}