{"id":15185,"date":"2012-03-18T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2012-03-18T21:07:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T02:07:45","slug":"a-shadow-of-what-i-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=15185","title":{"rendered":"a shadow of what I used to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at going out to this birthday gathering and I really wasn&#8217;t quite up for it &#8211; proving yet again that either my energy has suffered a rather sharp decline from a) turning 50, b) having a toddler, c) the lack of whatever is causing my hair to fall out, or what?<\/p>\n<p>But I was playing around with the topic of opposites &#8211; such as I had lit two candles in blue slip covers on the terrace one with a glass from Burger King that had images of Spock and the other with Uhura and the female profile of Uhura was certainly beaming towards Spock&#8217;s action figure. And I watched the power of opposites tonight from our terrace with Jupiter and Venus so obvious in the sky they were almost imposing.<\/p>\n<p>Tin&#8217;s lip swelling is receding, the breeze is cool, and we sat out on the terrace listening to Barry White and Love&#8217;s Unlimited Orchestra and listened to Tin through the video sing from the Allstar band, &#8220;Take a bass &#8230; Take a box, the one that rocks, &#8230; New Orleans&#8230; .<\/p>\n<p>And yet it is 9pm and it feels like 1 in the morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at going out to this birthday gathering and I really wasn&#8217;t quite up for it &#8211; proving yet again that either my energy has suffered a rather sharp decline from a) turning 50, b) having a toddler, c) the lack of whatever is causing my hair to fall out, or what? But I was playing around with the topic of opposites &#8211; such as I had lit two candles in blue slip&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3WV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15188,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions\/15188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}