{"id":55,"date":"2001-03-13T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2001-03-13T22:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=55"},"modified":"2001-03-13T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2001-03-13T22:21:19","slug":"anti-climactic-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2001\/03\/13\/anti-climactic-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-climactic return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in the shuttle on my way to the airport hilton, i sneezed suddenly and loudly, startling everyone around me. the man directly across from me scowled at me, as if he were afraid i would spread my germs on his ugly silk tie. for the next five minutes i tried desperately to sneeze again, so that i could conveniently forget to cover my mouth.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#cccccc\">(i think i am allergic to LA.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>in my car, i popped in the mixed tape from <a href=\"http:\/\/incommunicado.net\" title=\"THE original queen o' crush\">lisa<\/a> and realized that the internet has taken over my life, without my even realizing, in the best possible way. i am entangled in this web, and i don&#8217;t want out anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>that is partly why i enjoy weekends like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxsw.com\" title=\"south by southwest, march 9-13\">the one past<\/a> and why i don&#8217;t even think it&#8217;s worth rehashing in such grand narratives anymore.<!--of course, there will still be photos, hopefully decent ones.--> this sort of thing will become so what&#8217;s the word, not mundane, not normal, but well, hopefully you know what i mean because i can&#8217;t think of the word right now. it stops feeling so surreal or staged and more like seeing old friends.<\/p>\n<p>there were a few things that saddened me upon my return: that the parking lot where i used to park shut down permanently march 1, that the dishes i&#8217;d left on friday were still in the kitchen sink, <!--did it not disgust her that they were growing mold? if it were me, certainly i would have washed her damn dishes.--> that the snow white and seven dwarfs pornmail found its way into my inbox yet i did not receive an email i&#8217;d been hoping to get, that it was too late to call the east coast.<\/p>\n<p>is it just me or does it feel like forever since we&#8217;ve last talked?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the shuttle on my way to the airport hilton, i sneezed suddenly and loudly, startling everyone around me. the man directly across from me scowled at me, as if he were afraid i would spread my germs on his ugly silk tie. for the next five minutes i tried desperately to sneeze again, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}