{"id":263,"date":"2006-12-31T16:55:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T00:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2006-12-31T16:55:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T00:55:01","slug":"new-years-eve-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should be working, not reflecting.<\/p>\n<p>Although, on reflection, maybe the work can wait a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>Driving home from the grocery store this afternoon, I realized what&#8217;s gone wrong with my existence. Over the past couple of years, except for the various health problems, my life has taken a hard right into ordinariness. Worse, I&#8217;ve allowed myself to get used to it.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when I attracted interesting people and interesting situations to myself &#8212; occasionally to my regret, but the experience was generally worth it. That doesn&#8217;t happen so much anymore. I think my vibe has changed from &#8220;hey, universe, put on a show for me!&#8221; to&#8230;&#8221;ehhh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s no longer acceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should be working, not reflecting. Although, on reflection, maybe the work can wait a little longer. Driving home from the grocery store this afternoon, I realized what&#8217;s gone wrong with my existence. Over the past couple of years, except for the various health problems, my life has taken a hard right into ordinariness. Worse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}