{"id":998,"date":"2007-05-17T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/998"},"modified":"2007-07-21T19:25:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T17:25:30","slug":"misplaced-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/998","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/tmnt.warnerbros.com\/\">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie<\/a> last night.  I really only enjoyed it for nostalgia&#8217;s sake, quite frankly.   It was not as good as I&#8217;d hoped based on the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>I now realize how disconnected I truly am from popular American culture&#8230;.mostly the entertainment side of things.  On one hand, it is easy to access a lot of these things (I even saw Spiderman 3 on opening weekend).  But while Israel has all of these things, the culture at the Baha&#8217;i World Centre just isn&#8217;t focused on those things.  Sure, we go to movies, and the mall, and are on the internet (probably too much!).  But if you don&#8217;t seek it out there is no reason why you would know what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>The first few months I still had my &#8220;fingers on the pulse&#8221;, but as I spend more time here I become more content with a life less consumed with these things.  One thing I found lacking was my access to news\/science\/business.  Back home I would read BusinessWeek, Forbes, National Geographic, Discover, and a few other random magazines&#8230;and then suddenly I wasn&#8217;t anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I recently discovered the news feeds on my blog aggregator, so I have a feeling I&#8217;ll be getting back into my geekiness soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie last night. I really only enjoyed it for nostalgia&#8217;s sake, quite frankly. It was not as good as I&#8217;d hoped based on the trailer. I now realize how disconnected I truly am&#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":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haifa","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}