{"id":1481,"date":"2005-06-28T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T21:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/psst\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2005-06-28T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T21:44:25","slug":"1481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/1481\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/ryskamp.org\/misc\/david-foster-wallace-kenyon-commencement.html\">David Foster Wallace at Kenyon&#8217;s Commencement<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;If you&#8217;re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won&#8217;t consider possibilities that aren&#8217;t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Foster Wallace at Kenyon&#8217;s Commencement &#8211; &#8220;If you&#8217;re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won&#8217;t consider possibilities that aren&#8217;t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options&#8230;.<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/1481\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psst"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9wjHJ-1481","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}