{"id":598,"date":"2004-12-14T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolanpro.com\/wordpress\/?p=256"},"modified":"2004-12-14T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T03:03:00","slug":"winter-infatuation-with-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/2004\/12\/14\/winter-infatuation-with-consideration\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter infatuation with consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked the warmth hibernation that this season brings. I find my mind turns toward the escapist joys of human interaction and the fun of meeting someone that is fun to be around. Being such a self centered neurotic fellow for so long that the idea that another person can make me feel good had completely left my consciousness. I had accepted that my life would be one of a certain sort of irreverent solitude. That I would placate my misery with the hedonism of technology and simple sensory delight. I recently challenged this sentiment and now feel a certain giddy joy common to the infatuation of my youth. Perhaps it is the novelty of telling the same joke to a new person or perhaps it is that she laughs and plays along. Still it was a fleeting experience that awoke in me a feeling that I had long thought extinguished permanently through my own stubborn sardonic view of existence. It&#8217;s nice to know that such quick bursts of uncontrived fun can still happen.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked the warmth hibernation that this season brings. I find my mind turns toward the escapist joys of human interaction and the fun of meeting someone that is fun to be around. Being such a self centered neurotic fellow for so long that the idea that another person can make me feel good had [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}