{"id":2088,"date":"2007-03-20T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/03\/20\/but-i-was-given-a-free-fruit-protein-smoothie-today-so-thats-alright\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T20:49:00","slug":"but-i-was-given-a-free-fruit-protein-smoothie-today-so-thats-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/03\/20\/but-i-was-given-a-free-fruit-protein-smoothie-today-so-thats-alright\/","title":{"rendered":"but I was given a free fruit protein smoothie today, so that&#8217;s alright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tokyo-vr.com\/\">Think William Gibson knows about this?<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/428478112\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/187\/428478112_fd3818a825_m.jpg\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\"\/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/428478112\/\">my little tanith<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/foxtongue\/\">Foxtongue<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p> &#8220;A screaming comes across the sky&#8230;&#8221; Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow again, Pynchon as one of my favourite authors. Paul lent it to me, the sweet pig-tailed man who juggles as he walks, months ago as part of a thick stack, bricks of book to help build a delicious wall of post-modernism beside my bed. Now enough time has passed that I am feeling the pressure of their weight every time I leave the house without them. Except for this last novel, they require returning. Given another set of circumstances, I would not be so concerned, but I can sense myself putting it off out of a stunted sense of self-preservation. There\u2019s no casual way to be certain that Marc would not be the one to answer the door. I would have my past be a silent thing. There does not seem enough good in it to be worth preserving so carefully. It is not fair that my heart jumps so suddenly with his name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/2007\/03\/26\/070326sh_shouts_rich\">The Wisdom of Children.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do not like my memory acting as a ghost haunted, falsely fate-ridden private universe. I rather my hurts decompose, fold back into my experiences instead of corrode them, but cannot seem to find the trick. It has abandoned me completely. Instead I find myself withdrawing, attempting to find a social array where these emotionally catastrophic people do not so immediately exist, which doesn\u2019t actually help at all. I suppose part of it is that I\u2019m too busy trying to create a theatre through sheer force of will to concentrate on anything more private. Still, it nags me. That pile of books, however saturated with kindness, remains a constant reminder of circumstances that my wounded my well being &#8211; a Damocles sword that fell without a feast waiting (or even a table). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-627741~Smithsonian_chief_s_expenses_included__160_000_office_makeover.html\">The Smithsonian Institution pleads poverty while Smithsonian Secretary used Smithsonian funds to decorate his house.<\/a><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think William Gibson knows about this? my little tanith Originally uploaded by Foxtongue. &#8220;A screaming comes across the sky&#8230;&#8221; Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow again, Pynchon as one of my favourite authors. Paul lent it to me, the sweet pig-tailed man who juggles as he walks, months ago as part of a thick stack, bricks of book to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/03\/20\/but-i-was-given-a-free-fruit-protein-smoothie-today-so-thats-alright\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;but I was given a free fruit protein smoothie today, so that&#8217;s alright&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1090,669,464,3,1089],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-borrowed-things","tag-paul","tag-persepolis","tag-relationships","tag-thats-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}