{"id":1503,"date":"2007-03-01T19:07:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2007-03-01T19:07:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T19:07:38","slug":"raconteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Raconteur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If some tragic accident had befallen the Orpheum Theater last night, it probably would have taken out a good third of the local hipster population. The theme of the show was near and dear to my heart: television. I especially enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Rakoff\">David Rakoff&#8217;s<\/a> piece about his experimental foray into the land of television after a two-decade absence. And the clips of the TAL tv show looked intriguing enough for me to want to <strikethrough> download <\/strikethrough> order Showtime.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Savage, the sex columnist and author, also did a reading. Did I ever tell you that I made a semi-anonymous appearance in Savage&#8217;s column. You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/SavageLove?oid=10513\">here<\/a>. I cringe a little bit now when I read it because my letter makes me sound like a whiny, inexperienced gimp with an inferiority complex. Savage doesn&#8217;t treat me kindly in his response, and rightly so. But I also like to think of that letter as a precursor to the more finely crafted rants and diatribes that eventually appeared on this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If some tragic accident had befallen the Orpheum Theater last night, it probably would have taken out a good third of the local hipster population. The theme of the show was near and dear to my heart: television. I especially enjoyed David Rakoff&#8217;s piece about his experimental foray into the land of television after a <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1503' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-of","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}