{"id":1209,"date":"2003-08-30T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2003-08-31T02:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/08\/30\/this-actually-took-place-about-24-hours-ago\/"},"modified":"2003-08-30T21:57:54","modified_gmt":"2003-08-31T02:57:54","slug":"this-actually-took-place-about-24-hours-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/08\/30\/this-actually-took-place-about-24-hours-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"This actually took place about 24 hours ago."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>2212 hrs and Emma Hayes has tricked me into showing up at a party at her house, filled with cool hip extremely professional twentysomethings I don&#8217;t know.  Emma Hayes herself is predictably not here, so I&#8217;ve vaguely procured a 7-Up from her roommate Dawn.  I am lucky to have met Dawn once in a parking lot, and to have her mercifully remember me.<\/p>\n<p>Here I am sitting on the front porch of a freshly warmed house, trying to look writerly with my pocket Moleskine.  Perhaps, I think, this will politely make it less obvious that I have no idea what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Adventure!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sumana is not actually the big sister I never had, and would probably be a little weirded out if I claimed she was, but she DID display a frighteningly big sisterish sixth sense in calling about half an hour after I wrote that down.  This was wonderful; it gave me a good excuse to laugh for twenty minutes, recharged my ability to talk to humans, and gave evidence that I have a life outside of showing up at parties filled with people I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Emma finally did show up at what, 2320 hrs?  And it was great to see her, and I got to know some of the people at the party.  By the time I hitched home (around 0300) I had actually had a good time.  None of this outweighs the first panicky hour I spent retreating into introversion, though, really.  There&#8217;s a reason for the fact that, in college, I only went to parties in my own apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2212 hrs and Emma Hayes has tricked me into showing up at a party at her house, filled with cool hip extremely professional twentysomethings I don&#8217;t know. Emma Hayes herself is predictably not here, so I&#8217;ve vaguely procured a 7-Up from her roommate Dawn. I am lucky to have met Dawn once in a parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life-role-models","category-stress","category-sumana-harihareswara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}