{"id":918,"date":"2006-09-12T10:46:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T08:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/918"},"modified":"2006-09-12T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T08:46:35","slug":"so-quiet-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/918","title":{"rendered":"So quiet here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sky and the slate roofs of the warehouses are almost the same shade of grey, blending into each other today.  A good weekend of family, friends, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahaitemple.org\/\">Baha&#8217;i House of Worship<\/a> (always home to me, no matter what and how much time passes).<\/p>\n<p>Phone call from friend currently traveling across the United States by car: <i>&#8220;Sholeh, can my friend stay with you?  She is stranded in Chicago for a night and needs somewhere to sleep.  We were hanging out in Ohio, but she is from Portland.&#8221;<\/i>  Ok!  It is always fun to have random people around.<\/p>\n<p>I am no longer surprised that the vastness of our world is continually reduced.  Everyone is connected somehow, you just have to unravel the threads.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/51\/179161902_21fc4ef63a_m.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Do any fellow Chicagoans remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/chi-0603130212mar13,0,3739974.story\">Great Flood of 1992<\/a>?  I remember watching footage of people in scuba gear and hard hats looking very grim.  I went on a boat tour of the river &#038; lake in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Loop\">the Loop<\/a> on Saturday&#8230;the history of places is interesting and necessary to understand.  I look forward to travels to places where the layers of cities and villages seem endless, buried under dirt and time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky and the slate roofs of the warehouses are almost the same shade of grey, blending into each other today. A good weekend of family, friends, the Baha&#8217;i House of Worship (always home to me, no matter what and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}