{"id":401,"date":"2006-11-03T05:48:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=401"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:39:24","slug":"a-kindred-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"A Kindred Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=398\">My post-Halloween depression<\/a> is shared by a kindred spirit out west.<\/p>\n<p>Kate, aka &#8220;girlfriday,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/katebarbour.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/have-you-noticed-dwindling-numbers-of.html\">waxes eloquently (as she often does on a variety of topics) on the dearth of trick-or-treaters in her neck of the woods.<\/a> I particularly like this quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Packed like sardines into pre-fabricated, self-contained villages, we&#8217;re buried in gadgets designed to give us more time but we don&#8217;t seem to use it to meet the souls that live 15 feet away from us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"halloween-eye.gif\" id=\"image402\" title=\"halloween-eye.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/halloween-eye.thumbnail.gif\" \/>I&#8217;m buried in gadgets too, and maybe it&#8217;s time I took a stroll around the block and try to make some eye contact with a few of my neighbors. I wonder if anyone else has any Halloween candy left over?<\/p>\n<p>Wait, I know! I could dress like an optometrist!<\/p>\n<p>Nobody would ever know&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--88459d006c1c047a44f3092d6c618c45-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--110edc2c4d0de57efa0ba38669a6bc71-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--7d04b8a20e841bf3e72aef7d4e8edfef--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My post-Halloween depression is shared by a kindred spirit out west. Kate, aka &#8220;girlfriday,&#8221; waxes eloquently (as she often does on a variety of topics) on the dearth of trick-or-treaters in her neck of the woods.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-eyes","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9883,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}