{"id":237,"date":"2006-12-23T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2006-12-23T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T01:37:00","slug":"life-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"[life] Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Many friends have left to visit their no-longer-homes; at the moment, my plan is to vacation in Cambridge except for Christmas Eve.  I&#8217;m staying at the Opium Den to care for Chloe-the-cat starting Sunday.  If anyone is around and wants some adventure, get in touch.\n<li>I now have two trashed houses to clean: left-overs from a triple-whammy of the Rocky Party, a Salon, and Claudia staying over.  Somehow Claudia can generate more mess than 30 drunk Rockys&#8211; and making me feel more used than a hawk president who can&#8217;t take a hint.  Sometimes.\n<li>I finally saw Reefer Madness the Musical on DVD!  The choreography is beautiful!, and the pot-riddled situations and characters so true.  I can&#8217;t wait to see the MIT production&#8211; starting January 26.\n<li>I did my first real winter-gift shopping today (not counting a window-shopping trip a few days ago to re-awaken my consumerism).  One more day ought to do it.\n<li>My impulse self-purchase was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Succeed-Women-Ron-Louis\/dp\/0735200300\/\">How to Succeed with Women<\/a> which looks better than it sounds.  I&#8217;m quite happy with my female relations now, but it&#8217;ll be good for the long-term.  I&#8217;m trying to decide if I want to create a distinct real-life persona to try out a bunch of social experiments.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many friends have left to visit their no-longer-homes; at the moment, my plan is to vacation in Cambridge except for Christmas Eve. I&#8217;m staying at the Opium Den to care for Chloe-the-cat starting Sunday. If anyone is around and wants some adventure, get in touch. I now have two trashed houses to clean: left-overs from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[life] Updates<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}