{"id":1191,"date":"2010-06-06T13:16:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2010-06-06T13:16:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:16:35","slug":"adventures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2010\/06\/06\/adventures-2\/","title":{"rendered":"adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adaenn\/4651298038\/\"><img style=\"padding: 10px; float:left;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4046\/4651298038_f10a4fcbff_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>It is far too simplistic, but this is why I stopped drinking. Which is funny, because doesn&#8217;t this sort of shit look like a lot of fun? Drinking is fun, or perhaps the absurdity that ensues is fun.<\/p>\n<p>Portland felt like everything has changed. Some of it has. Visiting PDX and not drinking heavily, and staying in a hotel with a bed so wide it felt sideways, were weird enough. Socializing with strangers was another challenge, but worthwhile. Visiting Puppet Labs was a reminder of the social chasm that seems like no good deed will bridge. My life in the open source world is so far removed from the rest of my life. I suppose this is the quandary others have of having an academic and a social life.<\/p>\n<p>Riding the recumbent tandem to Portland with Colin was epic. And once there, being social, again. Huh. The chickens make me excited that I&#8217;m getting my own soon.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Kyle is here to do bike stuff. Bike stuff. It&#8217;s nice to be producing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is far too simplistic, but this is why I stopped drinking. Which is funny, because doesn&#8217;t this sort of shit look like a lot of fun? Drinking is fun, or perhaps the absurdity that ensues is fun. Portland felt like everything has changed. Some of it has. Visiting PDX and not drinking heavily, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}