{"id":990,"date":"2005-07-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/31\/alone-time\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:22","slug":"alone-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/31\/alone-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had a face-to-face conversation (or a longer than 5 minute phone conversation) with anyone in 30 hours, which is the longest stretch since I escaped Nebraska in May.  I feel <em>so much calmer<\/em>.  I have a solution for Cola&#8217;s visa problems.  I&#8217;ve done some chores I&#8217;ve procrastinated on for ages (but not cleaning the bathroom.)  I feel more secure in my identity.  And I read <em>French or Foe<\/em> from cover to cover.  Apparently the insane gender binary \/ male dominance of the language that I so love (a group of 999,999,999 women and one men is gendered male as a whole) is reflected in the culture.  I&#8217;ll be expected to flirt with men every time I step outside, according to this book, which also gives instructions on how to behave if the ambassador of argentina invites you to dinner.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s only for a year.  I want to move someplace where I&#8217;ll be expected to flirt shamelessly with women.  I&#8217;m good at that.  Well, better, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Tag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Celesteh\" rel=\"tag\">Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had a face-to-face conversation (or a longer than 5 minute phone conversation) with anyone in 30 hours, which is the longest stretch since I escaped Nebraska in May. I feel so much calmer. I have a solution for Cola&#8217;s visa problems. I&#8217;ve done some chores I&#8217;ve procrastinated on for ages (but not cleaning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/31\/alone-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alone Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}