{"id":778,"date":"2005-08-18T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=778"},"modified":"2005-08-18T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T10:19:00","slug":"odd-mental-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Odd mental state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in an odd mood.  I feel like I&#8217;m rebooting or running some sort of deep scan and cleanout of the memory systems.  <\/p>\n<p>There is a plumbing fixture company which has a line of products on which are inscribed &#8220;Turn to Silence.&#8221;  Whenever I notice one of these little inscriptions, I like to imagine that it&#8217;s part of a very subtle campaign to move people away from the noise and fury of our modern age.  Away from television and their thumping bass.  Turn instead, to silence.  I know that it has something to do with the noise of water gurgling &#8230; but that&#8217;s okay.  I am <a href=\"http:\/\/mansouri.com\/dfb\/\">not alone<\/a> in this little oddity.<\/p>\n<p>There is a guy, a <a href=\"http:\/\/ashidakim.com\/\">Ninja guy<\/a> who has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/ashidakim.com\/10k.html\">$10K Challenge<\/a> to all the asshats who write in and demand a shot at beating him up.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">redmed<\/a> decided to work from home today, so we could spend some more time together.  That made it a really pleasant morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in an odd mood. I feel like I&#8217;m rebooting or running some sort of deep scan and cleanout of the memory systems. <\/p>\n<p>There is a plumbing fixture company which has a line of products on which are inscribed &#8220;Turn to Silence.&#8221; Whenever I notice one of these little inscriptions, I like to imagine <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=778\">Odd mental state<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}