{"id":426,"date":"2005-05-05T00:47:23","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T05:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/05\/05\/obligatory-reflection\/"},"modified":"2005-05-05T00:47:23","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T05:47:23","slug":"obligatory-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/05\/05\/obligatory-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for everybody who called, wrote or commented to send me birthday wishes, and to all the people who showed up at my partylike entity.  You&#8217;re all great!  And I am made happy by material possessions:  DC gave me more of the awesome restricted-access Actors Theatre notebooks, and Maria gave me about a jillion books and DVDs and an ice cream cake <i>and<\/i> apparently something else that hasn&#8217;t arrived yet, and Lisa gave me&#8211;exclamation marks!&#8211;my first-ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/images\/fortado_final.jpg\" title=\"Blood!\">illustrated story<\/a>!  (Of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/anacrusis\/2005\/04\/07\/0\" title=\"Also blood!\">Fortado<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Despite my inexplicable knee-jerk belief of the past several months that I&#8217;ve been 26, I&#8217;m 24.  Tonight I sent off the third-to-last thing I have to do to graduate.  Almost done.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t honestly feel like I&#8217;ve lived in Louisville that long.  I feel so much more competent now, in so many areas, than I did two years ago:  working with humans, writing code, <i>writing<\/i>, traveling, using public transportation, applying the principles of aikido to solve nonphysical conflicts&#8211;all the things I want to spend my whole life doing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I think this is the year my brain starts dying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for everybody who called, wrote or commented to send me birthday wishes, and to all the people who showed up at my partylike entity. You&#8217;re all great! And I am made happy by material possessions: DC gave me more of the awesome restricted-access Actors Theatre notebooks, and Maria gave me about a jillion books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35,31,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspirators","category-family","category-landmarks","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}