{"id":17214,"date":"2018-05-12T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T20:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=17214"},"modified":"2018-05-12T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T20:27:26","slug":"caught-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2018\/05\/12\/caught-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Caught Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSoooo, caught up on some payphone calls from the last few weeks. That&#8217;s maximum entertainment value, I say.<\/p>\n<p>I find the payphone calls eerie at times, and I suspect others would as well. Who do I think I&#8217;m talking to? Who do I think is listening? Why am I saying these things, and in this way?<\/p>\n<p>I have my answers but that&#8217;s for the inhabitation of my mind, that existentially questionable place of oblivion where mysteries go to rot.<\/p>\n<p>I have looked back at some of this stuff and asked what I think a lot of observers would ask: &#8220;Why does this exist? Why would anybody do this?&#8221; I guess I reached a point of solipsistic remonstrance. Then I just kept at it.<\/p>\n<p>The story about the guy taking pictures of me that day, I don&#8217;t know why it took over a year to document it. I could have talked to him, I thought, because he seemed confused, and not about my behavior but about society in general. But he didn&#8217;t seem like a negotiator. He had his war machine (his cameraphone) ready to go at any time.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soooo, caught up on some payphone calls from the last few weeks. That&#8217;s maximum entertainment value, I say. I find the payphone calls eerie at times, and I suspect others would as well. Who do I think I&#8217;m talking to? Who do I think is listening? Why am I saying these things, and in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-hoarding","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-4tE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}