{"id":1039,"date":"2010-04-06T04:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T08:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2010-04-06T04:05:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T08:05:13","slug":"ten-years-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/1039","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s recently come to my attention that dreams about losing teeth are extremely common and this reminded me that the very first Introspection post ever was about a dream about teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, of course, the dream was actually about <a href=\"\/intro\/past1.htm\">gaining teeth<\/a> instead of losing them.  But I read a few days&#8217; worth of the old blog just for kicks anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And promptly ran head-on into this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>14 March 2000<br \/>\n-Ten years from now, existence permitting, I hope I&#8217;ll remember the poems I wrote more than the number of classes I took.  Otherwise, I could be in some serious trouble.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, that was just over ten years <i>ago<\/i> and I had one of those very strange telepathic moments of long-distance mirror-gazing.  Here I am, looking at myself.  Ten years.  Good gophers, that&#8217;s a long time.  A decade.  And more.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, I remember pretty well most of the poems and most of the classes.  But both pale in the face of what ultimately became my collegiate salvation, namely debate.  And here I am, back in the mix, ten years on.<\/p>\n<p>Existence permitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s recently come to my attention that dreams about losing teeth are extremely common and this reminded me that the very first Introspection post ever was about a dream about teeth. Predictably, of course, the dream was actually about gaining teeth instead of losing them. But I read a few days&#8217; worth of the old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,30],"tags":[5,6,70],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-but-the-past-isnt-done-with-us","category-the-agony-of-the-wait-is-the-agony-of-debate","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-but-the-past-isnt-done-with-us","tag-the-agony-of-the-wait-is-the-agony-of-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}