{"id":199,"date":"2003-08-23T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2003-08-23T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/friend_of_a_friend"},"modified":"2003-08-23T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2003-08-23T15:41:11","slug":"friend_of_a_friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2003\/08\/friend_of_a_friend.html","title":{"rendered":"Friend Of A Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to offer a hearty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroactive.com\/papers\/metro\/08.21.03\/mcgee-0334.html\" title=\"The Metro's interview with Mike\">congratulations to Mike McGee<\/a>. Earlier this month Mike did all his fellow South Bay Areans proud by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryslam.com\/nps2003\/schedule\/scores.html\" title=\"2003 National Poetry Slam Championship scores\">winning the National Poetry Slam Championship<\/a>.  That&#8217;s right &#8212; the reigning Poetry Slam champ is from San Jose. Not San Francisco, not Los Angeles, New York, or Chicago, but San Jose.  I just can&#8217;t believe that I had to read about it in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroactive.com\/metro\/\" title=\"San Jose alternative paper.  Older and less glossy than The Wave.\">local free paper<\/a> as opposed to hearing it from Sam directly. <\/p>\n<p>Not that I can blame Sam for this. It&#8217;s not like he didn&#8217;t <em>try<\/em>.  &#8220;Hey Evan &#8212; Mike is performing up in The City tonight &#8212; want to come?&#8221;  &#8220;Nah, I&#8217;m tired, and The City is way too far.&#8221;  &#8220;Hey Evan &#8212; Mike is performing in San Jose tonight.&#8221;  &#8220;Nah, I&#8217;m seeing a movie.&#8221;  Excuse after excuse.  Truth is, I&#8217;ve never cared much for slam poetry.  I had long ago placed slam poetry in a box labelled &#8220;Not-Art&#8221;, along with Anguished Teenage Poetry and Jonathan Franzen novels. And so I figured that even someone with Mike McGee&#8217;s quicksilver brilliance wasn&#8217;t worth getting off my duff to go see.  It never occurred to me that he might actually be good. As in, <em>really<\/em> good. What an unsupportive jerk I was.  Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured that even someone with Mike McGee&#8217;s quicksilver brilliance wasn&#8217;t worth getting off my duff to go see. It never occurred to me that he might actually be good. As in, <em>really<\/em> good. What an unsupportive jerk I was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}