{"id":51,"date":"2004-07-20T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2004-07-20T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T17:45:07","slug":"hotter-than-meursault-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/07\/20\/hotter-than-meursault-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotter than Meursault on the beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>I envy the mind of whoever<br \/> thought that up as a pick-up line;&nbsp;<br \/> I doubt I could pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tick-tock, tick-tock.&rdquo; says<br \/> the&nbsp;green crocodile, smiling&nbsp;behind me.<br \/> Time passes spasmodically,<br \/> without explaining itself.<br \/> Thoughts are mercurial;<br \/> hesitate on the razor-balance of<br \/> too rushed and too idle.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s in between the good times that<br \/> I feel like Sisyphus, and even like<br \/> Meursault. Times like now when all<br \/> movement is a relentless thrust upward,<br \/> and great energies are expended for<br \/> some purposeless toil.<br \/> This is what stars feel like.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Things make more sense in hindsight.<br \/> I wonder if Sisyphus,<br \/> ever stops his push and turns<br \/> to look back down the mountain.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I envy the mind of whoever thought that up as a pick-up line;&nbsp; I doubt I could pull it off. &ldquo;Tick-tock, tick-tock.&rdquo; says the&nbsp;green crocodile, smiling&nbsp;behind me. Time passes spasmodically, without explaining itself. Thoughts are mercurial; hesitate on the razor-balance of too rushed and too idle. It&rsquo;s in between the good times that I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}