{"id":6004,"date":"2020-07-25T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2020-07-25T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:09:54","slug":"hot-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6004","title":{"rendered":"Hot Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During shelter-in-place, I realized that there are certain things that I am starting to appreciate (of course, recognizing my privilege) which are:<\/p>\n<li>Regular baking and cooking schedule<\/li>\n<li>Not missing large gatherings of people\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhy did I think that I enjoy those large crowds of people???<\/li>\n<li>Traveling. As someone who flew across the world for various purposes, the ache of traveling is something that still stays with me.  Beyond the glossy photos of food and sights, I cannot unremember the lack of sleep, the uncomfortable beds, the long traveling times, and potentially in the future, visa issues. But I do the miss the discovery of new foods and the serendipity of new experiences<\/li>\n<li>Not missing small talk at all. Every communication now is intentional!  For a very valid purpose.  So I don&#8217;t want to revert to a world where I have to do aimless conversation at a party where I am really just there to see the host!<\/li>\n<li>Ability to escape parties by a click of a button than negotiating complicated social graces<\/li>\n<li>The fact that socialization can still work with small groups. Look how I turned out!<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During shelter-in-place, I realized that there are certain things that I am starting to appreciate (of course, recognizing my privilege) which are: Regular baking and cooking schedule Not missing large gatherings of people\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhy did I think that I enjoy those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6004\">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-6004","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\/6004","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=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}