{"id":576,"date":"2002-08-19T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T04:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/08\/19\/576.html"},"modified":"2002-08-19T21:05:53","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T04:05:53","slug":"other-associations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/08\/19\/other-associations\/","title":{"rendered":"Other associations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Also on the way home tonight, I saw a van (or possibly an oddly shaped SUV) go by with this license plate:<\/p>\n<p>FLK SNGR<\/p>\n<p>And I immediately thought, \"Oh, cool, it's a filksinger, I wonder if it's someone I know.\"<\/p>\n<p>It took me several seconds to realize my mistake and to laugh at myself.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, it's possible that I was right the first time.  But FILK is much less likely than FOLK, even in the South Bay.)<\/p>\n<p>Our filters (what Robert Anton Wilson used to call our reality-tunnels) color our perceptions.  Yeah, I've known that for a long time, but it still surprises me every now and then.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also on the way home tonight, I saw a van (or possibly an oddly shaped SUV) go by with this&#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-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}