{"id":33779,"date":"2023-01-09T13:40:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T13:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=33779"},"modified":"2023-01-09T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:03:00","slug":"almost-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2023\/01\/09\/almost-a-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Almost a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">It is coming up on my one year date. One year since starting this job. For whatever reason it is considered a milestone at this place. TO me it\u2019s just another drip in the bucket of time. I just talked to someone who has been here for about 2-1\/2 years. She said she thought I had been here longer than her. That\u2019s kinda weird. What does it mean? Perceptions. The Mandela Effect. This isn\u2019t really that, I know, but in my mind I\u2019ve been replaying all those Ed McMahon Publishers Clearing House commercials that never aired, thinking it a strange, snide, aggressive memory to culturally fabricate. What does it say about our estimation of Ed McMahon, the unabashed coattail chaser of TVdom. I feel something pleading, and desperate in these cultural fibs. But also something judgmental.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for the one year thing I will say that this has been different. A year of strict structure after 20 years of unmoored directionlessness has changed my fundamental relationship with time. I still feel it clamping up under me, resisting progress while ticking along at its own pace. But lately I\u2019ve made peace with the fact that 5:00 will get here when 5:00 gets here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I remember saying that \u201cthe years pass like strangers.\u201d During Covid they did not pass at all. Was it one big year, or one yearless blob of entropy?<\/p>\n<p>It is suddenly very noisy in here. I look forward to this morning quiet time but it\u2019s become a fustercluck. There is quieter space upstairs but stairs\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Mystery tune I found via Music On Hold at a comopany I called last month where no one ever answered. All I heard was this:<P>https:\/\/youtu.be\/Abl6bL2amWs \u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is coming up on my one year date. One year since starting this job. For whatever reason it is considered a milestone at this place. TO me it\u2019s just another drip in the bucket of time. I just talked to someone who has been here for about 2-1\/2 years. She said she thought I [&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-33779","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-8MP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33779","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=33779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}