{"id":5584,"date":"2010-09-12T08:13:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2010-09-13T07:38:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T11:38:40","slug":"what-it-is-91310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-91310","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 9\/13\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What I&#8217;m reading:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000H4EELK?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000H4EELK\">The Iliad<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000H4EELK\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m listening to:<\/em> Early Springsteen, in honor of late summer.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m watching:<\/em> The last few episodes of the first season of Louie, along with bits and pieces of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1019452\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Serious Man<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0139239\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119535\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Life Less Ordinary<\/a>. Also, I caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1440728\/\" target=\"_blank\">The American<\/a> at a matinee after the shofar services on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m drinking:<\/em> Bluecoat and Q-Tonic<\/p>\n<p><em>What Rufus &amp; Otis are up to:<\/em> Going on their first grey-hike in a few weeks, getting accustomed to new beds, and just enjoying the cooler weather.<\/p>\n<p><em>Where I&#8217;m going:<\/em> Nowhere in particular.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m happy about:<\/em> The new year.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m sad about:<\/em> This growing feeling that I just can&#8217;t keep up with The World At Large, and that I&#8217;d be better served cutting off all those RSS feeds and Facebook views and Twitter updates.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m worried about:<\/em> My lack of worry over this year&#8217;s conference. Last year was really debilitating, in large part because one of my key speakers went into radio silence mode for a full six months, until one day prior to the conference. No such hassles this year, and all the other aspects seem to be running smoothly.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m pondering:<\/em> Fate and destiny, through the lens of Achilles&#8217; rejection of the envoy in book 9 of the <em>Iliad<\/em>. Also, whether I&#8217;ll have a heart attack if I try <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P90X\" target=\"_blank\">P90X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;m reading: The Iliad What I&#8217;m listening to: Early Springsteen, in honor of late summer. What I&#8217;m watching: The last few episodes of the first season of Louie, along with bits and pieces of A Serious Man, Go and A Life Less Ordinary. Also, I caught The American at a matinee after the shofar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-91310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What It Is: 9\/13\/10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1s4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5586,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}