{"id":21,"date":"2002-09-26T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2002-09-26T20:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=21"},"modified":"2002-09-26T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2002-09-26T20:37:06","slug":"god_i_hate_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"God, I hate the suburbs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God, I hate the suburbs.  After work today, I drove a friend to get his car from the repair shop.  On the way back, I somehow got turned around and could not find my way back to the highway.  All I saw was a vast wasteland of car dealerships, strip malls, and bad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applebees.com\/\">chain restaurants<\/a>.  I finally found my way and fled back into the comforting arms of the city.<br \/>\nI heard a clip of T.S. Eliot reading &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsu.edu:8080\/~wldciv\/world_civ_reader\/world_civ_reader_2\/eliot.html\">The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock<\/a>&#8221; on the radio today.  Something about that poem really speaks to me, especially this part:<br \/>\nDo I dare<br \/>\nDisturb the universe?<br \/>\nIn a minute there is time<br \/>\nFor decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.<br \/>\nPeace,<br \/>\nMark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, I hate the suburbs. After work today, I drove a friend to get his car from the repair shop. On the way back, I somehow got turned around and could not find my way back to the highway. All I saw was a vast wasteland of car dealerships, strip malls, and bad chain restaurants. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=21' 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-21","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-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}