{"id":2722,"date":"2012-07-23T22:13:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T03:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2012-07-23T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T03:13:52","slug":"alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/2722","title":{"rendered":"Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I felt <em>alive<\/em> for a moment, a rush of adrenaline as one of my closest friends and I drove down 94 with the windows down, singing along to the radio at the top of our lungs. It is a warm, sticky summer, a thunderstorm loomed overhead tonight, and everything is <em>going to be ok.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I neared home, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/QNbRMG-4wAI\" target=\"_blank\">this song<\/a> by Real McCoy came on the radio. It reminded me of awkward school dances, of the 90s, and of things that are good. I remember when Chicago had a techno station, and my friend and I would crank it up in the summer and sit in her front yard. I remember driving hours to see friends, listening to music and dancing just because we could.<\/p>\n<p>August is going to be a very busy, intense month for me, both for work and travel. I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>Take joy in the small things, in the biggest thing of all&#8230;that we are here and full of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I felt alive for a moment, a rush of adrenaline as one of my closest friends and I drove down 94 with the windows down, singing along to the radio at the top of our lungs. It is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}