{"id":15668,"date":"2001-09-15T00:45:31","date_gmt":"2001-09-15T07:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/09\/15\/10.html"},"modified":"2001-09-15T00:45:31","modified_gmt":"2001-09-15T07:45:31","slug":"choices-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/09\/15\/choices-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a hard time deciding, that day, whether to stay home where I had a Net connection, or go elsewhere to get hugs and watch TV.  (My TV doesn't receive anything; I use it to watch videotapes.)  I opted eventually for the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I get all the human contact I need from email and journals; I mean, seeing people in person is great, and certainly higher-bandwidth, but I can happily go without direct in-person \"f2f\" contact for days at a time.  But this week I was really craving being around people in person.<\/p>\n<p>I should note that I don't mean any of what I'm writing about my personal responses to sound Big and Dramatic.  I know that many many people were much more directly affected than I was; many had extraordinarily difficult choices to make; I certainly don't mean any of this to be whiny.  Just reporting my responses, laying groundwork for discussion to follow.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a hard time deciding, that day, whether to stay home where I had a Net connection, or go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}