{"id":1651,"date":"2006-01-18T19:15:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T03:15:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\\&#8221;So I heard that you\\&#8217;re working for Ellen\\&#8217;s firm.  Congrats.\\&#8221; a classmated imed me.<\/p>\n<p>I knew I didn\\&#8217;t tell him directly, so I asked him where he heard it from.<\/p>\n<p>\\&#8221;Your blog.\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I immediately looked through all my latest blog entries to see if I had talked anything about the start of a recent part-time interaction designer.  Nothing.  He must have heard it from someone else.<\/p>\n<p>But that brought up a thought.<\/p>\n<p>In comparision to my earlier days (back in 2001), I now often censor what I write.  I don\\&#8217;t share my emotions on this blog as much as I used to.  I don\\&#8217;t write about angst (besides those vague entries).  It\\&#8217;s a shame in some way to be afraid that people will judge me on the basis of what I write.  That they will assume things about me.  It\\&#8217;s not that I care so much about what people think, but I would rather not encourage the development of the wrong assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>Awhile ago, I had a journal where I wrote only during my depressing moments.  I shared that with some close friends&#8211;or people I thought I could trust.  One person however started avoiding me, thinking that I was constantly unhappy on the inside, but happy on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>I am more the written word.  I am so much more.  I am more than that photographer who took the above picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\\&#8221;So I heard that you\\&#8217;re working for Ellen\\&#8217;s firm. Congrats.\\&#8221; a classmated imed me. I knew I didn\\&#8217;t tell him directly, so I asked him where he heard it from. \\&#8221;Your blog.\\&#8221; I immediately looked through all my latest blog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1651\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}