{"id":550,"date":"2003-05-09T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2003-05-09T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/05\/09\/my_beloved_bubble.html"},"modified":"2003-05-09T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2003-05-09T11:49:39","slug":"my_beloved_bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/05\/09\/my_beloved_bubble.html","title":{"rendered":"my beloved bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me knows that Boston brought out some of the most despicable and horrid aspects of me and it made me more depressed than i&#8217;ve ever experienced, yet without any of the supports necessary to get through it in a non-destructive manner.  I thought that i could deal with that wretched city long enough to get my grad degree, but i learned quickly that grad school is challenging itself and thus you must be in the most positive context imaginable to deal.  I knew that i needed to be in San Francisco.  Period.  Grad school or not.  Hell, even my MIT advisor points out my San Francisco tendencies.  Well, this morning <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2003\/05\/09\/notes050903.DTL&#038;nl=fix\">a little article reminded me of why i love my silly bubble and why i never want to leave<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt&#8217;s that odd dumbstruck jolting feeling you get as soon as you step more than 25 miles away from this most progressive and funked-out and deeply flawed and self-consciously screwy of kaleidoscopic American urban metropoli: oh my freaking God, what is happening to the world? This is what you say. To yourself. Probably.<\/p>\n<p>Because suddenly you find yourself pummeled with many of those lovely bleak horrible things you&#8217;ve somehow become so inured to while living in S.F., those things you might&#8217;ve slowly come to hope don&#8217;t really exist quite so violently and vehemently anymore. But of course they do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sexism. Racism. Guns. Jingoism. Jesus fetishism. Psychopatriotism. Rampant pseudo-religious family-values faux-ethical circle jerking masquerading as Christian humility. Wal-Marts like giant florescent-lit viruses. Strip malls like a stucco plague. Ho hum, ain&#8217;t that America. It so is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me knows that Boston brought out some of the most despicable and horrid aspects of me and it made me more depressed than i&#8217;ve ever experienced, yet without any of the supports necessary to get through it in a non-destructive manner. I thought that i could deal with that wretched city long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}