{"id":42,"date":"2003-03-10T10:16:59","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T10:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3500years.com\/zsallia\/?p=42"},"modified":"2003-03-10T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T10:16:59","slug":"my-own-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/2003\/03\/10\/my-own-desires\/","title":{"rendered":"My Own Desires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I have noted several times <\/b>that I dislike the concentration on politics that has overtaken this project nearly from its opening day.  After posting earlier today I found myself decidedly displeased with myself for having dipped in to the well of such commentary yet again.<\/p>\n<p>It is not that I feel political discourse is beneath me, or unseemly, rather it is that I cannot believe that there is any point to laying out opinions on a regular basis when I honestly believe I have little of any originality to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuant to that I am going to eschew any further commentary on current political events for a time and concentrate on other writing.  At least until such time as something truly momentous unfolds- and in case you might wonder, no, I do not include the initiation of hostilities with Iraq in the category of &#8220;momentous events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Originally I wished to write of the past, and culture, and entertainment, and sex, and food- I wanted to be hedonistic and debauched.  Instead I waste my time being pompous and stuffy.  Let that be a lesson to all and sundry- never let events sway you from your dreams.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have noted several times that I dislike the concentration on politics that has overtaken this project nearly from its opening day. After posting earlier today I found myself decidedly displeased with myself for having dipped in to the well of such commentary yet again. It is not that I feel political discourse is beneath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-present"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}