{"id":1182,"date":"2004-05-02T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T22:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/05\/02\/im_back-2.html"},"modified":"2004-05-02T22:21:23","modified_gmt":"2004-05-02T22:21:23","slug":"im_back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/05\/02\/im_back-2.html","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m back&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, it&#8217;s so good to be home.  There&#8217;s internet and a kitty cat and loving roommates.  I will say that there&#8217;s nothing like traveling abroad to make me appreciate all of the goodness in my life.  I even found myself singing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/Ani\/EducatedGuess\/GrandCanyon.html\">Grand Canyon<\/a> on the way home.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>i love my country<br \/>\nby which i mean<br \/>\ni am indebted joyfully<br \/>\nto all the people throughout its history<br \/>\nwho have fought the government to make right<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Running away for a bit makes me turn back and see all of the myopia and screwups of this country from a different perspective.  I get to remember that i love the land, that i love (many of) the people&#8230; i could do without the government and without a certain self-centered element.  But, by and large, going away lets me remember the good parts.  I&#8217;ve been on the road for a month &#8211; three different countries, many different cities.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and CHI was &#8230; interesting.  So many good people and that it was definitely worth the adventure.  It just took me a day without Internet to remember that nothing mattered but the people.  And i got to see a few museums and go shopping in London.  This kind of reprieve always does feel good even if the guilt of work hangs over my head.  I did make up for it all by meeting with another blogging researcher in London and then managing to attend a &#8220;dinner&#8221; (where dinner==pub) of all bloggers &#8211; that was a hoot.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, i&#8217;m back to the internet.  Just in time for finals and extended chaos.  Must make it to summer&#8230; must make it to summer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, it&#8217;s so good to be home. There&#8217;s internet and a kitty cat and loving roommates. I will say that there&#8217;s nothing like traveling abroad to make me appreciate all of the goodness in my life. I even found myself singing Grand Canyon on the way home. i love my country by which i mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}