{"id":2921,"date":"2010-04-19T23:51:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T06:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2010-04-19T23:51:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T06:51:12","slug":"here-come-the-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Here come the crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am at an impasse.<\/p>\n<p>Having gone to graduate school directly from college, I was on a direct path.  I found jobs quickly after graduate school.  Despite having been laid off not once, but twice.  I always knew where I was headed.<\/p>\n<p>But is it that where I wanted to go?  Tough question.<\/p>\n<p>What if I walked out the door with nothing.  Except my credit card and a bank atm card.  What if&#8230;I had nothing?  What if it meant no computer, no electricity?  Nobody that I knew?  What if?<\/p>\n<p>Every single part of my life has been meticulously planned that I don&#8217;t know exactly what spontaneity means.  And those few moments of spontaneity that I experience\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe moment that I walk into a foreign city and discover something&#8230;so serendipitious.  Is that why I seek those alternate reality games?  Is that why I love improv?  Because for a few minutes, for an hour, I am somewhere else, I am not me, I am taking that leap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am at an impasse. Having gone to graduate school directly from college, I was on a direct path. I found jobs quickly after graduate school. Despite having been laid off not once, but twice. I always knew where I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2921\">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-2921","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\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}