{"id":2203,"date":"2007-12-26T23:09:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T07:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2007-12-26T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T07:09:03","slug":"city-and-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"City and Suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I uttered words that I shouldn&#8217;t have been caught saying.<\/p>\n<p><i>I am tired of living in the city.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And with holidays approaching, I happily retreated to my parents&#8217; abode in the suburbs of San Francisco.  As days passed, I stared in blankness at the television, yearning for something to really be good on On Demand.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go out,&#8221; they said, tired of the sudden appearance of a couch potato.  <\/p>\n<p><i>But to where?<\/i> I thought.  <i>Bed, Bath and Beyond?  Costco?  Safeway?  The starbucks?  To waste gas and pollute the earth?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And instead, I sat trying to finish a stack of DVDs and watching romantic comedies that Chris normally would never let me watch (Prime, Just Like Heaven, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Poseidon, Imagine Me and You)&#8230;and the entire second season of Entourage.<\/p>\n<p>And there it was.  I missed living in the city where I could go downtown without guilt of environmental pollution and still happily window shopped&#8230;to entertain myself.  Or I could walk down Mission fingering the cheap plastic cups and the faux jewelery proudly displayed on matching tables.  And even then, I could hold Valencia oranges and sometimes even Meyer lemons and think about how organic I wanted to be that day.<\/p>\n<p>But in Lafayette, I was 2 miles away from things.  And those things were simply nearly like strip malls.  So instead, I played Yoshi Touch N Go, my current DS game of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I uttered words that I shouldn&#8217;t have been caught saying. I am tired of living in the city. And with holidays approaching, I happily retreated to my parents&#8217; abode in the suburbs of San Francisco. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2203\">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-2203","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\/2203","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=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}