{"id":6366,"date":"2024-07-17T04:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T04:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2024-07-17T04:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T04:07:21","slug":"other-peoples-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/other-peoples-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Other people&#8217;s problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve struggled to express why I don&#8217;t get too into dramatic books, movies, or (especially) video games despite admiring the craft, but this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Exploring-Calvin-Hobbes-Exhibition-Catalogue\/dp\/1449460364\">a rare Bill Watterson interview<\/a> is a pretty close approximation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I&#8217;m shockingly ill-read. I&#8217;m not proud of this, but when faced with a work of fiction&#8211;a book, a movie, or anything&#8211;I tend to think, &#8220;You know, I&#8217;ve got problems of my own.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow as my own life and work got more complicated, my tolerance for drama in my free time has diminished. Still a sucker for comedy though.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure how that exactly squares with <a href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/fiction-as-a-way-to-experience-reality\/\">my last post though<\/a>. See, complicated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve struggled to express why I don&#8217;t get too into dramatic books, movies, or (especially) video games despite admiring the craft, but this from a rare Bill Watterson interview is a pretty close approximation: I&#8217;m shockingly ill-read. I&#8217;m not proud of this, but when faced with a work of fiction&#8211;a book, a movie, or anything&#8211;I&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/other-peoples-problems\/\">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":[148,345,354,3,383,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creativity","category-films","category-personal","category-work","category-writing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1EG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366","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=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6369,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions\/6369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}