{"id":360,"date":"2008-05-14T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2008-05-14T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T17:43:00","slug":"360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I now have my one-way ticket to parts unknown!  I leave July 4 from NYC and fly into Sao Paulo, Brazil.  There, I find a place to leave my moving-bag, and spend the next couple weeks or months trekking around the country.  PLUS, the funnest person in the entire world is going to meet me to explore (read: cut down) the Amazon&#8211; getting drunk on riverboats, hanging off trees, seducing headhunters, discovering new species, endless craziness!<\/p>\n<p>Time is running out&#8230;  My schedule for the next two months includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This Saturday: <b>Rocky Party!<\/b>  Cast, crew, and their guests are invited.  Come to get drunk, naked, and off.\n<li>May 30: <b>Salon Party!<\/b>  Come if you love discussion!  Wine, philosophy, and good company.\n<li>June: Poker night?  ICA visit?  Camping trip?  Vege dinner party?  Drug orgy?  Everything I have time for (which, admittedly, will be limited)!  Salons on June 10 and 24!\n<li>June 28: <b>Brazillian Party!!!<\/b> (Going Away Party)&#8211; EVERYONE should come to this!  It starts Saturday evening, and continues into the Rocky afterparty.  I&#8217;ll set up an evite in June.<\/ul>\n<p>I need to go climbing, dancing, driving, hashing; I need to get my visa, storage, jobs, and give use sell pack and trash all my stuff; I need to finish teaching my Future seminar, writing up my other seminars for OpenCourseWare, and coding a working beta of the Travelers Network.  And I need to spend all the rest of the time with good friends.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m torn: I don&#8217;t want to lose my friends here!  But I don&#8217;t want to try to force a remote-presence, like some awful year-long goodbye, and I don&#8217;t want to distance myself from the incredible things I can be doing in Brazil.  I&#8217;ll probably never return to greater-Cambridge, except to visit, but there are too many special people here that I don&#8217;t want to lose track of, touch with, or connection to.<\/p>\n<p>Should I start posting every day, like the LJ blogs with very active readerships?<br \/>\nShould I build an virtual park\/living room, where I can run into friends online?<br \/>\nShould I just forget everyone, like I&#8217;ve done in the past?<br \/>\nWould you join a group forum, where we commit to posting something notable every 10 days?<br \/>\nWould you Skype with me every once in a while, just to catch up?<\/p>\n<p>Live fully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I now have my one-way ticket to parts unknown! I leave July 4 from NYC and fly into Sao Paulo, Brazil. There, I find a place to leave my moving-bag, and spend the next couple weeks or months trekking around the country. PLUS, the funnest person in the entire world is going to meet me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/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-360","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\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}