{"id":297,"date":"2009-12-18T01:29:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2009-12-18T01:29:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:29:28","slug":"check-this-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"check this out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Sultan died. He did some really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.edu\/academics\/faculty\/lsultan\">great work<\/a>. I hope one day I get to see it in person.<\/p>\n<p>Been listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/staff-lists\/7742-the-top-100-tracks-of-2009\/\">Pitchfork&#8217;s best tracks of 2009<\/a>. Lots of great singles there. More and more that&#8217;s what I find. Not so many great records, but lots of great songs. There&#8217;s this one by Matt and Kim, <em>Daylight<\/em>; it&#8217;s been running through my brain all day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really interested in reading Stephen Elliott&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithmag.net\/memoirville\/2009\/09\/23\/interview-stephen-elliott-author-of-the-adderall-diaries\/\">Adderall Diaries<\/a>. I&#8217;ve finally got some breathing space for leisure reading after spending my fall reading strategically this writing certificate program I&#8217;m in. Not that I&#8217;ve not read some great stuff, especially when it comes to Amy Hempel and Raymond Carver, but it&#8217;s not quite the same as the thrill of finding something new on your own.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about marriage today. And how asking someone if they are married and how the question just assumes heterosexuality. And how if gay marriage ever does happen, asking &#8220;are you married&#8221; will be just that, and not some passive way of trying to parse the orientation of queers who don&#8217;t stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Sultan died. He did some really great work. I hope one day I get to see it in person. Been listening to Pitchfork&#8217;s best tracks of 2009. Lots of great singles there. More and more that&#8217;s what I find. Not so many great records, but lots of great songs. There&#8217;s this one by Matt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}