{"id":5142,"date":"2015-07-23T17:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T00:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2015-07-23T17:52:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T00:52:48","slug":"i-am-a-hairless-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5142","title":{"rendered":"I am a hairless beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And fleas don&#8217;t live on hairless beasts!<\/p>\n<p>I whirled around the Mission today.  Unsuccessfully meeting a buyer, who for the fifth time suggested a time and place to meet, and needed a text message to remind her that <i>oh, i&#8217;ll find you later<\/i>.  And a homeless woman who harassed me for money while I peered inside a store that used to sell chocolate and ice cream, now empty, devoid of any furniture and sweets.  And the possibility of a project with a client who has a history of UN-innovation and UN-collaboration.  And the troubles with managing participants with a study.<\/p>\n<p>Little irritations.  But then they added up as they do for any inhabitants of the first world.  And I sat in the corner of a fancy chocolate cafe, rubbing my temples, my eyes glazed at my computer screen and a 33-page writing piece that didn&#8217;t fit my reading interests, but I had to critique, because that&#8217;s what I told myself that I would do as a dedicated writer.  And the sun beating down on me, with the wind whipping the hair into my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>My sunglasses though, made the world appeared cheery with yellow and red. I wish that it could make my emotions and mental state do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And fleas don&#8217;t live on hairless beasts! I whirled around the Mission today. Unsuccessfully meeting a buyer, who for the fifth time suggested a time and place to meet, and needed a text message to remind her that oh, i&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5142\">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-5142","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\/5142","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=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}