{"id":3515,"date":"2006-01-31T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T17:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/01\/31\/reality-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T21:27:24","slug":"reality-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/01\/31\/reality-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality isn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were times during this morning&#8217;s webcast where I felt as though I was a spirit, disassociated from my body and floating above it, looking down on the proceedings and thinking, &#8220;oh my, why doesn&#8217;t he just open a vein right there on camera and get it over with?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I once considered myself to be reasonably intelligent and sporadically coherent. No more. There are good reasons why I don&#8217;t do v-blogging or podcasts. If you missed the live event, do me a favor and skip the archived version as well. I know I&#8217;m going to.<\/p>\n<p>And I hope Jimmy Patterson will accept my apologies, as I&#8217;m fairly confident he was expecting a lucid interviewee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have been out of my freakin&#8217; mind when I agreed to appear on a live webcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,89,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-msm-journalism-etc","category-navel-gazing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14267,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/14267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}