{"id":132,"date":"2004-12-16T10:36:28","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2004-12-16T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T17:36:28","slug":"how-to-dance-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/12\/16\/how-to-dance-properly\/","title":{"rendered":"How to dance properly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Worth a giggle, at least.<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the day from Contemporary Poetry Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.” -Stéphane Mallarmé<\/p>\n

And a bit more from Mallarmé:<\/p>\n

“Oui, je sais qu’au lointain de cette nuit, la Terre
Jette d’un grand éclat l’insolite mystère
Sous les siècles hideux qui l’obscurcissent moins.”<\/p>\n

Yes, I now know that far into the night the Earth
Is flinging a strange and mysterious shaft of light whose
Brilliance will only be increased as the grim centuries pass by.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rather uplifting coming from him, I think.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

I’ve been working all week at St. Martin’s. Tomorrow and Saturday, all day at Tumwater. My first full days out there, since working there once, for 5 hours. I’m nervous, yes, but I’m trying to be laid back about it. It’s just a job, after all, and not a particularly difficult one. Even so, shelving books for 8 hours of the day sounds particularly brain-numbing. I wish I could just work the reference desk here full-time. *grumble grumble*<\/p>\n

Swing dancers can get cantankerous, particularly when they’re talking about choreography, and everyone wants it done their<\/em> way. They seem so fun and pleasant on the outside; who knew?<\/p>\n

I need a day off … or a week. Either way.
*yawns sleepily and has a daydream about coffee*<\/p>\n

I’d love some comments on yesterday’s story;
good, bad, long or short, any remarks are lovely.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worth a giggle, at least. Quote of the day from Contemporary Poetry Review: “It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.” -Stéphane Mallarmé And a bit more from Mallarmé: “Oui, je sais qu’au lointain de cette nuit, la Terre Jette d’un grand éclat l’insolite mystère Sous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}