{"id":3359,"date":"2013-03-14T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T21:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2013-03-14T16:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T21:04:46","slug":"this-is-probably-going-to-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2013\/03\/14\/this-is-probably-going-to-suck.html","title":{"rendered":"This is probably going to suck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(My mother disliked the term “suck” and was even a bit mystified at its mainstream usage considering its origins as a term for fellatio.)<\/p>\n

It looks like I have to move out of my apartment. The owner wants to renovate and jack up the rent and I just can’t deal. I would not object to paying higher rent for a renovated place but the ordeal of having my place basically razed is not inspiring. I also have limited confidence in this owner’s worksmanship, not to mention his honesty. I also never really liked the place to begin with. Aside from anything like that, though, I’ve wanted to move for a long time now, and have been saying so for years. I am pursuing this without regard to the threat of renovation, as if that wasn’t even on the horizon, because it does not matter.<\/p>\n

I have not moved since 1997, after the ill-fated jaunt to Atlanta ended prematurely with me skedaddling out of there in a U-Haul back to New York. I never intended to be at this apartment or even in Astoria for this long, but inertia is a powerful force, especially when it exerts itself upon the lazy. I changed my mind about moving back to Manhattan after getting whacked from corporate. Astoria has become for me a place to have a life, not a career, and Manhattan is mostly a pain in the ass to live in. Other options include taking a plunge and going someplace completely different, renting 7-room apartments for what I pay now for 2 rooms, and discovering what the rest of America is really like. I doubt I’ll be that energetic about it, though.<\/p>\n

I am at a Starbucks on Northern Blvd and 51st St. Cheery space but the screaming kids are making me want to leave, and fast. The roads seemed strangely quiet today. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(My mother disliked the term “suck” and was even a bit mystified at its mainstream usage considering its origins as a term for fellatio.) It looks like I have to move out of my apartment. The owner wants to renovate and jack up the rent and I just can’t deal. I would not object to […]<\/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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","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\/paumAn-Sb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","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=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}