{"id":1487,"date":"2004-07-29T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T19:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/07\/29\/living-in-convention-world\/"},"modified":"2004-07-29T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T19:53:30","slug":"living-in-convention-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/07\/29\/living-in-convention-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Convention world"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

I was remarking to Becky G, of American Street<\/a>
\nlast night (she’s a delegate), that we’re living in this strange
\nparallel universe of Convention Land.  I live here in Boston, so I
\nwander in and out of it every day.  I wake up, read a little news
\n(a very <\/span>little),
\ndrink some
\ncoffee, and blog.  Then I go to Copley to get the day’s media
\ncredential, hang out with the Librarian, and make my way to the Fleet.
\nInside, there’s bad food*, no real windows, lots of noise, speeches,
\nlots of Democrats talking about the party’s chances, and difficulty
\nactually thinking to be able to write a coherent post.<\/p>\n

Then I go home at night, blog a bit more, and go to bed.  BF is
\nalready asleep, and he gets up early to go to his summer work.  So
\neven though we live in the same house, we haven’t seen each other in
\nthree days.  <\/p>\n

My house, in fact, has become a staging area for coming and going.<\/p>\n

But I know so little of what’s going on outside the bubble of the
\nconvention.  Literally, when I am talking with people now, it’s
\nall about the convention, because when I’m not there, I’m either alone
\nor asleep.  Even when I talk to BF or friend Matt on the phone,
\nit’s about how the latest speech played on the TV, as opposed to in
\nperson.<\/p>\n

* I want to note that the bad food is at different prices, if you’re
\nwilling to walk downstairs to North Station, which is under the Fleet
\nand part of its complex.  An iced Dunkin Donuts coffee is about
\n$4.50 upstairs, but $2.35 at the bottom.  Same with other similar
\nfood products.  Is it any wonder that it’s always crazy down there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was remarking to Becky G, of American Street last night (she’s a delegate), that we’re living in this strange parallel universe of Convention Land.  I live here in Boston, so I wander in and out of it every day.  I wake up, read a little news (a very little), drink some coffee, and blog.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[661],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deeencee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-nZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}