{"id":23,"date":"2003-08-18T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2003-08-17T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=23"},"modified":"2003-08-18T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2003-08-17T21:05:13","slug":"wainuiomata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/23","title":{"rendered":"Wainuiomata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To have started a new book (David Foster Wallace&#8217;s Infinite Jest). To have watched a good film (<a title=\"plot is for children\" href=\"http:\/\/www.russianark.spb.ru\/eng\">Russian Ark<\/a>). To have enjoyed the company of fantastic people.  To have slept in a loft\/mezzanine floor. To have talked to the members of Goldenhorse briefly. To have met some of Richie&#8217;s friends. To be home. <\/p>\n<p>I was wrong about the month&#8217;s theme, and the theme thing in general. It turns out there are two themes to each month &#8211; one inward-facing, one outward facing. Inward one this month is &#8220;self-actualisation&#8221;, outward one is &#8220;humans as God&#8217;s representatives&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I bought a beanie for $2.50 in a wacky Asian shop in Old Papatoetoe. The shop had a wee room at the back with &#8216;SEXUAL HEALTH PROTECION UTENSILS&#8217; written above the door.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray\" src=\"http:\/\/mhjb.orcon.net.nz\/beanie.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Beanie bought in Old Papatoetoe\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It occured to me this afternoon that I am in love with all creation. What&#8217;s more, I just won a ticket (or two) off <a title=\"there is no other\" href=\"http:\/\/radioactive.fm\">the radio<\/a> to the ITF (Sminternational Turntablist Foundation) competition on at Coyotes on Thursday. Lush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To have started a new book (David Foster Wallace&#8217;s Infinite Jest). To have watched a good film (Russian Ark). To have enjoyed the company of fantastic people. To have slept in a loft\/mezzanine floor. To have talked to the members of Goldenhorse briefly. To have met some of Richie&#8217;s friends. To be home. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}