{"id":834,"date":"2012-08-28T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2012-08-28T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T01:08:14","slug":"day-8-i-think-and-the-banality-of-my-bedside-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"day 8 i think and the banality of my bedside table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does a bedside table say about someone? I think it must say something. If not in its whole at least via what&#8217;s on top. Mine has a digital alarm clock on top and a trivet my mom made and a lamp with a base that is a little bit too big for a table on the smallish side. There&#8217;s also an empty\u00a0prescription\u00a0bottle for some antibiotics I finished taking almost a month ago, a pencil holder that often is empty but currently has 4 pens, my reading glasses, a spray bottle which I use when the cats run in here at 5am and start fighting, my phone, and a box of matches that seem entirely out of place because I don&#8217;t have candles or incense, and I don&#8217;t smoke. There&#8217;s a pad of \u00a0large sticky notes that I use to write myself reminders, like &#8220;call Rachel,&#8221; as well as to jot down sentences or fragments of sentences I might use in a piece I&#8217;m working on, like &#8220;this is for your own good.&#8221; \u00a0There&#8217;s also a stack of books, made up of the following titles from the top down: <em>About Alice<\/em> by Calvin Trillin, <em>Stories for Boys<\/em> by Gregory Martin, <em>Ting Beautiful Things<\/em>\u00a0by Cheryl Strayed, a small spiral notebook with lyrics to some songs I wrote in 2001 and 2002, but that I currently used to work out multiple sentences or lines I thinking through for a piece, <em>Go Down, Moses<\/em> by William Faulkner, <em>Transgender Warriors<\/em> by Leslie Fienberg and <em>Infinite Jest<\/em> by David Foster Wallace. This stack is clearly more aspirational than practical or realistic. I&#8217;ve not not read any of these books, except a few pages from <em>About Alice<\/em> and couple <em>Dear Sugar<\/em> letters and responses. Beside the book stack and on top of the trivet there&#8217;s the book that I&#8217;m actually reading. <em>The Invention of Solitude<\/em> by Paul Auster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a bedside table say about someone? I think it must say something. If not in its whole at least via what&#8217;s on top. Mine has a digital alarm clock on top and a trivet my mom made and a lamp with a base that is a little bit too big for a table [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banality","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}