{"id":1240,"date":"2006-09-01T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2006-09-01T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T12:00:56","slug":"i-support-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1240","title":{"rendered":"I support myself."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m supposed to give a presentation to introduce myself to the new first-year students in CMS.  Since I&#8217;ve been so busy with other stuff, I totally haven&#8217;t gotten around to making something new, so I&#8217;ve been wracking my brain about how to repurpose something <i>old<\/i> in a creative way.  You know, show off something I&#8217;ve done that the new guys will appreciate that the old guard might not have seen yet.  Then I remembered something that I&#8217;ve been including in most of my recent bios.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m on the <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=5081253&#038;s=143441&#038;i=5081248\">iTunes Store.<\/a><br \/>\nThe story is one that I told at Fray Cafe Three, at SXSW a couple of years ago.  Listening to it again is really kind of fun &#150; I can hear touches of Henry Rollins, touches of Eddie from Ohio, and maybe a couple touches of Denis Leary.  (I wear my influences on my sleeve.)  And you know what, for $.99 and the time it takes to download the file, my problem is solved &#150; and I think Derek just got a nickel.  Good news all around.  I hope the other guys like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m supposed to give a presentation to introduce myself to the new first-year students in CMS. Since I&#8217;ve been so busy with other stuff, I totally haven&#8217;t gotten around to making something new, so I&#8217;ve been wracking my brain about how to repurpose something old in a creative way. You know, show off something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-k0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}