{"id":41373,"date":"2021-07-08T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=41373"},"modified":"2021-07-08T21:28:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:28:31","slug":"my-stalker-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/my-stalker-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"My Stalker Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Post 121 of 263. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr. As I mentioned in the post announcing Bast’s passing from COVID<\/a>, I thank everyone for your generous donations to the original Fundrazr campaign, which resulted in sponsored 263 posts. I will continue to honour the commitment to write those 263 posts, but I will not commit to more. The link above is to a new campaign to help Bast’s family.)<\/p>\n

Chris Bauer is at it again<\/a>, popping up after many pleas to leave me alone, this time on a YouTube video. The only reason he comments is to chastise me for the way I live my life here and how he perceives I interact with locals, without having the full context. As a reminder, this is the person who told me I would fail at my life here because I can’t handle being a vehicle with no AC that has internal temps of more than 50C, so that gives you an idea of the value of what he has to say.<\/p>\n

I’ll always be a silly bumbling foreigner here. That’s part of what I love so much about being in Mexico — everyone expects me to make mistakes and to be something of a weirdo. As long as I am kind and humble and respectful and willing to learn and earnest, this country will keep opening itself up to me.<\/p>\n

I don’t need someone like him telling me how to behave here. I have the Mexicans in my life to do that through their example and gentle guidance. I live here contentedly outside the expat bubble and in the local language with very little friction. There is no way I would own this house if I was the kind of foreigner Chris thinks I am. This deal could only be made because I understand how to do business here — by building a personal relationship. Same thing with some of the deals that were made in this reno — only someone who cared about his relationship with his client could have made that desk and those doors happen on time and well below budget.<\/p>\n

I am very distressed that Chris popped up in my life tonight and that I’m having to deal with this. It makes me feel very unsafe that four years after I told him to leave me alone, he’s still obsessed with me. This is definitely stalker behaviour, hence why I’m, again, speaking about it publicly because I know that my first instinct to go dark again isn’t the right one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Post 121 of 263. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr. As I mentioned in the post announcing Bast’s passing from COVID, I thank everyone for your generous donations to the original Fundrazr campaign, which resulted in sponsored 263 posts. I will continue to honour the commitment to write those 263 posts, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41375,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41373\/revisions\/41375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}