{"id":603,"date":"2005-07-09T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=603"},"modified":"2005-12-10T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T22:24:03","slug":"exhale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/exhale","title":{"rendered":"Exhale"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time<\/a> (or Remembrance of Things Past<\/a>, depending on your translation) tonight, after starting the 4,300-page shebang on February 1.<\/p>\n

I thought it’d take me a year to read the whole shebang. At least, that’s what I put in front of myself at the start of this project. Back in college, I thought Proust was meant for one’s middle age, but I really didn’t understand anything about it. I told myself then that someday I’d give myself a year to read it.<\/p>\n

Proust and life have both taught me a lot in the past 5+ months. I’m a little too mentally exhausted right now to share it, but it’s been informing everydamnthing I’ve been writing for a while now.<\/p>\n

Right now, the official VM fiance and I are going to settle back, have dinner, and watch Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (or Remembrance of Things Past, depending on your translation) tonight, after starting the 4,300-page shebang on February 1. I thought it’d take me a year to read the whole shebang. At least, that’s what I put in front of myself at the start of this … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Exhale”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-exhale","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":872,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wedding-pictures","url_meta":{"origin":603,"position":0},"title":"Wedding pictures!","author":"Gil","date":"March 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The photographer's online proofing page of our wedding pix is available! 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