{"id":356,"date":"2009-05-05T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=356"},"modified":"2009-05-05T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T16:24:47","slug":"there-are-more-of-us-than-you-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/05\/05\/there-are-more-of-us-than-you-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"there are more of us than you suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nFriend: good to hear<br \/>\nFriend: been reading up on your brain<br \/>\nFriend: you do a lot of thinking<br \/>\nFriend: nice to know that others do it too<br \/>\nMe: Yes!<br \/>\nMe: It&#8217;s a pet peeve of mine that it&#8217;s so secret that we all think.<br \/>\nFriend: You just have the talent and balls to write it down where others can read\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I responded to a friend&#8217;s blog post about gender issues, society and prejudice this morning. It&#8217;s hard to separate all of those. I&#8217;ve been waiting for a solid chunk of time to respond to another friend&#8217;s post about old relationships you never let go of. When I came in this morning, I got the above IM. I feel like more people are being open about thinking and feeling, and this makes me happy. Being a thoughtful person should not be alienating.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still unable to sleep without completely exhausting myself and some trickery. I&#8217;m avoiding Nyquil so far. Problem is really more the waking up early than not being able to get to sleep in the first place. I laid in bed breathing this morning for an hour before I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xkcd.com\/490\/\">gave up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>L clued me in to how indulgent I&#8217;ve been, and when I stopped to think about it I saw how far down dead end roads been expressive was taking me. It&#8217;s relieving in the short term to what I want to say because it allows me to vent some emotion, but it doesn&#8217;t get me anywhere unless I go back, read it, and think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Man life is hard and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devmorgan.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/laptop-in-bed\/\">lonely<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend: good to hear Friend: been reading up on your brain Friend: you do a lot of thinking Friend: nice to know that others do it too Me: Yes! Me: It&#8217;s a pet peeve of mine that it&#8217;s so secret that we all think. Friend: You just have the talent and balls to write it [&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\/356"}],"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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}