{"id":1274,"date":"2004-02-25T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2004-02-25T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T04:59:00","slug":"perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/perspectives","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I went down to watertown last night, smoked half a jay [yah, yah, I know, I know.. but it was a party day.. ] and danced to some wicked good old-school techno. <\/p>\n<p>It always amazes me how much my view of the world is influenced by my perspective. Like, there was a guy at Watertown wearing a &#8216;europe is for homos (with hearts instead of Os)&#8217; shirt, which said www.whitehouse.gov on the back. At first, I thought it was a gay-bashing thing.. but then I realized, this guy was not displaying any animosity towards anyone &#8211; and then my DJ friend tells me he&#8217;s from one of the local crews.. and I realized, no, Sheer.. it&#8217;s funny&#8230; and then I smiled, and he smiled, and everyone seemed friendlier.<\/p>\n<p>Totally about perspective.<\/p>\n<p>If you think someone won&#8217;t like you &#8211; or is making a statement against you [not that I&#8217;m gay, mind you, but gaybashing makes me extrordinarily uncomfortable nonetheless] &#8211; then your reactions to their perceived view of you means they probably won&#8217;t. And conversely.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I talked to a bunch of people last night &#8211; like four or five, and I even remember some of their names. It was cool, if a bit different &#8211; I got the phone number of a very cheap camera operator who may or may not be any good, we shall see..<\/p>\n<p>As always, I&#8217;m juggling too many eggs..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went down to watertown last night, smoked half a jay [yah, yah, I know, I know.. but it was a party day.. ] and danced to some wicked good old-school techno. It always amazes me how much my view of the world is influenced by my perspective. Like, there was a guy at [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}