{"id":685,"date":"2004-11-17T01:04:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T05:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/11\/17\/xxx40\/"},"modified":"2004-11-17T01:04:19","modified_gmt":"2004-11-17T05:04:19","slug":"xxx40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/11\/17\/xxx40\/","title":{"rendered":"XXX40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a636'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>They say you can never know somebody perfectly, not even yourself.&nbsp; It can make you feel helpless in the face of the <STRONG>gaping maw<\/STRONG>&nbsp;of the eternal Void.&nbsp; There are days when the pointlessness of life hangs from your neck like a bronzed baby, and even a second helping of <STRONG>scallion pancakes<\/STRONG> seems unappetizing.&nbsp; And yet redundant lightweight wireless devices secreted about your person, with touchscreens and zpf keyboards, interconnected via infrared and thumb-sized harddrives, can make these worries disappear for a few fleeting hours.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Posting from a much beloved <EM>X40<\/EM>,<\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM>SJ<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say you can never know somebody perfectly, not even yourself.&nbsp; It can make you feel helpless in the face of the gaping maw&nbsp;of the eternal Void.&nbsp; There are days when the pointlessness of life hangs from your neck like a bronzed baby, and even a second helping of scallion pancakes seems unappetizing.&nbsp; And yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-by-wire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}