{"id":15349,"date":"2019-02-10T22:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=15349"},"modified":"2019-02-10T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:04:09","slug":"one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/10\/one-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"one thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>one thing about living here &#8212; it, a little bit, feels like endless obligation, like you have to go to someone&#8217;s show, attend this meeting, speak to so-and-so, etc. etc. perhaps obligation isn&#8217;t the right word &#8212; it sounds so onerous, and yet&#8230;it&#8217;s not as choice-driven as commitment &#8212; so maybe it <strong>is<\/strong> obligation.<\/p>\n<p>but also &#8212; i&#8217;m wondering if that&#8217;s just the nature of community? and if so, kind of UGH, but then kind of like &#8212; maybe that&#8217;s why community is cool? but then truly double UGH, cuz while i want to be a totally cool team player and love (in theory) (the idea of) community, i also hate being tied down to anything that i haven&#8217;t actively chosen. i want to choose all of it, always, and anything that isn&#8217;t my choice makes me feel resentful (even though it might be cool as hell).<\/p>\n<p>THE END, OFF TO BED, KEEP IT TRILL<\/p>\n<p>ps this just came up because yesterday, i worked on my school assignment, cleaned, baked, did mega laundry, and watched <em>isle of dogs<\/em>, and it was so dope to be so&#8230;free. i was wondering if this is why i liked portland so well? i had my little crew of pals and my job, but no other outside tethers to make me feel pinned down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one thing about living here &#8212; it, a little bit, feels like endless obligation, like you have to go to someone&#8217;s show, attend this meeting, speak to so-and-so, etc. etc. perhaps obligation isn&#8217;t the right word &#8212; it sounds so onerous, and yet&#8230;it&#8217;s not as choice-driven as commitment &#8212; so maybe it is obligation. but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15351,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15349\/revisions\/15351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}