{"id":846,"date":"2005-05-20T17:41:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T17:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=846"},"modified":"2005-05-20T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T17:41:39","slug":"luminous_beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Luminous Beings Are We"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Morning Edition had a clip of a woman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4659573\">discussing her life with cerebral palsy<\/a>.  The interview is part of the Library of Congress&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/storycorps.net\/\">StoryCorps<\/a> project.  I haven&#8217;t checked their website to see if the full interview is available.  Her remarks on relationships echo some of my own sentiments when I&#8217;m feeling melancholy.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to try to see <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0121766\/\">Revenge of the Sith<\/a> tonight.  I&#8217;ve been trying to avoid the avalanche of news media screaming at me to see this movie.  Like I need to be reminded.  At least the reviews for this episode are a little more encouraging.  Do you think the kid from Episode I pops in the DVD of that movie once in a while to marvel at his own craptacular performance?  Do you think he cringes whenever he hears himself shout out &#8220;Yippie!&#8221; with all the feeling of a tree stump?  God, I hope so.  Over on Metafilter, they linked to some old Usenet postings containing reviews of <a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/group\/net.movies.sw\/threads?start=270&#038;order=recent\">Return of the Jedi<\/a>.  Even 20+ years ago, &#8220;spoiler&#8221; was part of the geek vernacular.  There&#8217;s something kind of reassuring about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Morning Edition had a clip of a woman discussing her life with cerebral palsy. The interview is part of the Library of Congress&#8217; StoryCorps project. I haven&#8217;t checked their website to see if the full interview is available. Her remarks on relationships echo some of my own sentiments when I&#8217;m feeling melancholy. I&#8217;m going <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=846' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-846","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-dE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}