{"id":436,"date":"2007-03-20T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=436"},"modified":"2007-03-20T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T00:30:10","slug":"and-in-blackness-stare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"And in blackness stare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had a relevation.  What if Chris couldn\\&#8217;t keep up with me.  My yearning to really discover the city, to explore, to find myself.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I had met someone who reminded me of the <i>carpe diem<\/i> that was possible.  It was oddly refreshing to be met with humor and a slightly sharp edge that reminded me of someone a long time ago.  Afterwards, I found myself being as sarcastic.  It was strangely different.  And for a moment, I thought about how it was just great meeting all new people.<\/p>\n<p>And yet I am reminded that sometimes that yearning is only on the surface.  I can dump what I have and think there\\&#8217;s more, but there really isn\\&#8217;t.  It\\&#8217;s a facade.  A lure of the unknown which is nothing more than small talk.  I would get frustrated again as I always have.<\/p>\n<p>And yesterday when I was visiting Kyle, I found <i>The Last Kiss<\/i> the DVD on his desk.  I laughed and pointed it out to him.  He even admitted that it was a bad movie, but it reminded him of his own life.  He pointed at the girl closer to Zach Braff.  <i>That\\&#8217;s what I need to do.  <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had a relevation. What if Chris couldn\\&#8217;t keep up with me. My yearning to really discover the city, to explore, to find myself. Yesterday I had met someone who reminded me of the carpe diem that was possible. It was oddly refreshing to be met with humor and a slightly sharp edge that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And in blackness stare<\/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-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}