{"id":152,"date":"2008-08-19T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-08-19T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T23:26:05","slug":"seeing-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"seeing other people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had so much social activity this weekend I got over stimulated.  I think the last time I saw this many people in so few days was the wedding, and it&#8217;s different with old friends, when you can just lay down on the floor and bullshit and watch folks fall asleep.  Not that I&#8217;m complaining; it was good.  I&#8217;m glad for the chances to connect. And it reminds me I&#8217;ve always navigated lots of different groups of people and I like that.  I like that about myself and I like knowing a lot of people who wouldn&#8217;t necessarily know each other.<\/p>\n<p>I just read David Foster Wallace&#8217;s essay on the Illinois State Fair, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/17-9780316925280-1\">getting away from already pretty much being away from it all<\/a>&#8220;. I laughed out loud and I recommend it especially if you&#8217;re of the mind that he&#8217;s poking fun out of a reluctant love for the midwest.  No, I&#8217;m not in a rush to go out and breeze through <em>Infinite Jest<\/em>, but I do have new affection for DFW, who before I could never get into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had so much social activity this weekend I got over stimulated. I think the last time I saw this many people in so few days was the wedding, and it&#8217;s different with old friends, when you can just lay down on the floor and bullshit and watch folks fall asleep. Not that I&#8217;m complaining; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}