{"id":1638,"date":"2003-07-16T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T08:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2003-07-16T08:36:18","modified_gmt":"2003-07-16T08:36:18","slug":"egads_no_words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/egads_no_words\/","title":{"rendered":"egads, no words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>while watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/bigbrother4\/\">big brother<\/a> last night, i realized that i could never be a contestant on that show.  i think i could get used to sleeping with twelve strangers.  i think i could get over having cameras record everything i do, twenty-four hours a day.  i think i could even play the mental game in order to acheive a half-million dollar success.  what i couldn&#8217;t deal with, and this would drive me insane, is not being able to write anything for three months.<br \/>\nseriously, they&#8217;re not allowed pens or pencils in that house.  there is no writing of any sort.  i understand why.  the producers want the contestants to have to say everything so that they can record it for your viewing pleasure.  that&#8217;s why you&#8217;ll see them with messages to friends and family written on their clothing with mascara or mustard.  no paper. no pens.  no typewriter. no computer.  i think i&#8217;d go bonkers.<br \/>\nit may not look like it to the casual reader, but this outlet helps me put a lot of my life into perspective.  i spend time thinking how i&#8217;m going to present certain occurances in my life.  how to describe the actions or feelings of a moment in my life.  it helps me to work through difficult issues or cement the more enjoyable memories in my mind.<br \/>\nof course, one could say that i could mentally compose all these things and then just not write them out.  well, yeah, i could, but every once in a while i&#8217;m unbelieveably clever and if i didn&#8217;t have the opportunity to jot that down, i&#8217;d forget it and be all sad.  i&#8217;m not that clever all that often.  i feel i must record those moments for posterity, just to prove i was once really witty.<br \/>\np.s.  there&#8217;s a link to my rss 1.0 feed over to the left under &#8220;things&#8221;.  all the really cool kids have rss feeds, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>while watching big brother last night, i realized that i could never be a contestant on that show. i think i could get used to sleeping with twelve strangers. i think i could get over having cameras record everything i do, twenty-four hours a day. i think i could even play the mental game in <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/egads_no_words\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}