{"id":31730,"date":"2022-04-16T18:05:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=31730"},"modified":"2022-04-16T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T18:33:02","slug":"minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/04\/16\/minutes.html","title":{"rendered":"Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">Being at a regular job (whatever that means anymore) has changed my attitudes about time. My experience of time, rather. It no longer feels like a slippery, elastic, uncontrollable material.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p> And what of the seconds? <\/p>\n<p> They will get here. In the past there was a sense that a certain hour would never arrive. That there could never be enough time but at the same time there is far too much of it. <\/p>\n<p> Thinking of how quickly things can change. I opened a kitchen cabinet. Two bags of coffee and a large metal bowl came umbling out. Nothing made impact with my head or anything but the visual memory of suddenly being rained upon by unexpected objects felt like a metaphor for instant death as happens. <\/p>\n<p> However innocent or safe a situation might seem it can turn fatal in a moment that would otherwise be just like any other. <\/p>\n<p> Moments are all the same. Minutes, seconds, they have no character or presence that makes one different from the next. <\/p>\n<p> Time is a big fat bore. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being at a regular job (whatever that means anymore) has changed my attitudes about time. My experience of time, rather. It no longer feels like a slippery, elastic, uncontrollable material.\u00a0 And what of the seconds? They will get here. In the past there was a sense that a certain hour would never arrive. That there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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_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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","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\/saumAn-minutes","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730","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=31730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}