{"id":3787,"date":"2010-10-09T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T00:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2010-10-09T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T00:58:30","slug":"dialing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/10\/09\/dialing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialing down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not sure what’s in the air, but I feel an immense quietude settling around me: everyone seems either muted or not saying anything I’m hearing, and I feel the same way about my own voice. (Is anyone reading this? Listening? I doubt it… I feel entirely erased somehow. And island-bound.)<\/p>\n

I could write a diatribe about how I have no affection for Canada’s celebrating Thanksgiving on Columbus Day (really, who ever heard of a good<\/em> Monday holiday? and whoever decided that the sheer genius of the real<\/em> 4-day late November Thanksgiving celebration could be trumped by this early bird<\/em>?), but I won’t bother.<\/p>\n

The weather hints at months of low, impenetrable skies and rain, my eyes feel watery, and I’m reading science fiction just for the hell of it. From nineteen-sixty-two, to boot (The Man in the High Castle<\/a> by Philip K. Dick). Gruesome. Funny, but gruesome. Click through to the book’s wikipedia page<\/a> for original cover & illustrations – I won’t repost these because they have symbols (swastikas) I dislike.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back when I once again feel like talking to myself, wings (and ears) picking up.<\/p>\n

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Mute swan flapping its wings (Portrait of the blogger as a bird)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not sure what’s in the air, but I feel an immense quietude settling around me: everyone seems either muted or not saying anything I’m hearing, and I feel the same way about my own voice. (Is anyone reading this? Listening? I doubt it… I feel entirely erased somehow. And island-bound.) I could write a diatribe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_so","tag-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3789,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}