{"id":309,"date":"2010-09-11T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngc2632.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2010-09-11T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T13:05:16","slug":"phantom-pains-in-an-amputated-limb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/everything\/phantom-pains-in-an-amputated-limb\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom pains in an amputated limb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, on this day, around this time of day, I go back and read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vidicon.livejournal.com\/54220.html\">this<\/a><\/strong> again, and all of the little comment threads, so I can remember what happened, how it felt &#8230; and how we all knew in advance how the events of the day were going to be used and misused for the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Some amazing things have happened for me over the past nine years, stuff I would never give back. But looking back over my own timeline, everything up to that date was pretty smooth running and more or less on some sensible track, and everything after that date was all shattered landscapes and tons of wasted effort trying to get back to familiar ground.<\/p>\n<p>There is no familiar ground anymore. Any twinges I&#8217;ve been feeling for the American Dream have been phantom pains in an amputated limb.<\/p>\n<p>[*]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, on this day, around this time of day, I go back and read this again, and all of the little comment threads, so I can remember what happened, how it felt &#8230; and how we all knew in advance how the events of the day were going to be used and misused for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-4Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}