{"id":1439,"date":"2011-03-01T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2011-03-01T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:12:19","slug":"conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2011\/03\/01\/conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bit of an argument with T the other day about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0804497\/\">It&#8217;s Kind of a Funny Story<\/a>. She thought the movie trivialized the lives of mentally ill people in the course of providing an unrealistic plot device. I called bullshit, literally, then tried to find a way to explain myself. I still don&#8217;t know how to. I feel like there is a relationship here with being frustrated with the focus on anti-racism in some of my social groups lately and the us versus them mentality surrounding the Seattle PD lately. I usually joke that I&#8217;m an offensive man from a small town in the woods and somewhat kill the conversation. I don&#8217;t intend to kill it, but I give most people an out from there.<\/p>\n<p>L told me recently that I was a conundrum. I forget her evidence, but none of it was a surprise. It was something like that being a flannel wearing bearded man who swaps transfer cases doesn&#8217;t fit with being an emotive blogger who volunteers a lot. M responded a bit to my inquiry about how she feels about fitting into the world, which excited me. There is some interesting confirmation in L calling me a conundrum and my conversation with M about being a round peg in a world of square holes.<\/p>\n<p>I only recently remembered that I&#8217;m meeting J tomorrow instead of our usually Tuesday. Boo. <\/p>\n<p>Work more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bit of an argument with T the other day about It&#8217;s Kind of a Funny Story. She thought the movie trivialized the lives of mentally ill people in the course of providing an unrealistic plot device. I called bullshit, literally, then tried to find a way to explain myself. I still don&#8217;t [&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\/1439"}],"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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}