{"id":627,"date":"2004-06-29T21:05:05","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T01:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/06\/29\/supersimultaneity-piling-up-of-eve"},"modified":"2004-06-29T21:05:05","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T01:05:05","slug":"supersimultaneity-piling-up-of-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/06\/29\/supersimultaneity-piling-up-of-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Supersimultaneity &#8211; piling up of events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a462'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, there are hours and days and weeks and months where nothing happens.    Or where things endeavour to happen but never in any sharply time-delimited fashion.  And there are weekends when fifteen different crucial things happen, all magically fitting together, and <b>90-hour stretches<\/b> when there isn&#8217;t enough time to catch a breath or sleep.  And sometimes there are four-hour periods during which five or six different unreschedulable nonrefundable irreplaceable events take place &#8212; in the middle of a week in which no others do.  Is this a natural property of life?  A quality of certain environments?  A taste of <i>karmic circumstance<\/i>?  I can&#8217;t be the only one to whom this happens; <b>fess up<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, there are hours and days and weeks and months where nothing happens. Or where things endeavour to happen but never in any sharply time-delimited fashion. And there are weekends when fifteen different crucial things happen, all magically fitting together, and 90-hour stretches when there isn&#8217;t enough time to catch a breath or sleep. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetic-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}