{"id":2649,"date":"2013-09-29T04:13:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T04:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:55:01","slug":"san-francisco-tourist-faq-from-a-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/san-francisco-tourist-faq-from-a-local\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco tourist FAQ from a local"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<br>In the interest of helping tourists who are new to San Francisco, as a local I thought I&#8217;d answer a few common questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: <strong>Should I go to Alcatraz\/Pier 39\/cable cars\/Coit Tower?<\/strong><br>A: How the hell would I know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: <strong>How do I get to&#8230;<\/strong><br>A: Well, first you pull your phone out of your pocket. Then you start the maps app, and you type in where you&#8217;re going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: <strong>Where&#8217;s the entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge?<\/strong><br>A: You&#8217;re already on the Golden Gate Bridge. You just can&#8217;t see it through all the fog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: <strong>Where can I park around here?<\/strong><br>A: You can&#8217;t. Whoever told you to rent that car owes you an apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: <strong>Since bread bowls are high in carbs, why are San Franciscans so thin?<\/strong><br>A: Fact: Nobody who lives in San Francisco has ever eaten soup in a bread bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: <strong>What <em>do<\/em> the locals eat?<\/strong><br>A: Typical, healthy San Franciscans eat 1 to 1.5 times their body weight per month in burritos (or as you call them, &#8220;Chi-POH-tly.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: <strong>Should I head over to Haight-Ashbury, get high, and put a flower in my hair?<\/strong><br>A: The wind will blow the flower away. And you&#8217;ll get busted ineptly trying to buy drugs from some dumbass in Golden Gate Park. So please, go right ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: <strong>Can you show me where my favorite episodes of <em>Full House<\/em> and <em>Monk<\/em> were filmed?<\/strong><br>A: Yes, but first we&#8217;ll have to get in your rental car and drive down to Burbank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: <strong>I saw two hairy, shirtless men in the street, wearing leather masks and whipping each other. Is there some kind of street fair going on?<\/strong><br>A: Nope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;In the interest of helping tourists who are new to San Francisco, as a local I thought I&#8217;d answer a few common questions. Q: Should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"San Francisco tourist FAQ from a local - MrEricSir.com","description":"&nbsp; In the interest of helping tourists who are new to San Francisco, as a local I thought I'd answer a few common questions. Q: Should I go to Alcatraz\/Pier"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10107,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/10107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}