{"id":362,"date":"2007-12-31T17:42:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T22:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/a_good_walk_spoiled"},"modified":"2013-11-17T23:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T23:53:12","slug":"a_good_walk_spoiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2007\/12\/a_good_walk_spoiled.html","title":{"rendered":"A Good Walk Spoiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a pretty good New Year&#8217;s Eve day.<\/p>\n<p>Got a lot of the house cleaned up. Got some papers in order. Sent email thank-yous for various Christmas cards. (Unmarried Jewish guy = email response to Christmas cards is the best I can realistically manage.)<\/p>\n<p>Read the news at a leisurely pace. Bid a last goodbye to a number of entertaining but ultimately pointless political blogs, and their legions of time-wasting commenters. This is one of my New Year&#8217;s Resolutions. If I can quit Slashdot, I can quit you too.<\/p>\n<p>Walked down to <del>Satan&#8217;s<\/del> Santana Row and stopped at one of the bistros. Enjoyed a glass of red wine on a cool, sunny day with a bright blue sky. Read most of <cite>Life in a Medieval City<\/cite> by the Gies-es-es.<\/p>\n<p>Continued on my way to a small art gallery to look at my two tree paintings again. Actually, prints. They cost $3400 each. The last time I&#8217;ve been so affected by artwork was in the Prado looking at <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spanisharts.com\/history\/barroco\/i_barroco_velazquez.html\">The Dwarf Sebastian de Mora<\/a><\/cite>. Wished that I had the kind of disposable income that I could just snap my fingers and take them both.<\/p>\n<p>Then back home to do a little more noodling on the computer. And in the process of writing a friend an email, I came to a horrible realization: We are going to be stuck with Carson Daly doing the Rockin&#8217; New Year&#8217;s Eve for <em>the next fifty years<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fuuuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a pretty good New Year&#8217;s Eve day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}