{"id":79,"date":"2003-01-05T19:05:55","date_gmt":"2003-01-05T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=79"},"modified":"2003-01-05T19:05:55","modified_gmt":"2003-01-05T19:05:55","slug":"simple-questions-are-the-hardest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/79","title":{"rendered":"Simple questions are the hardest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wound up staying up absurdly late last night surfing the Net, looking for new and interesting projects.  I know that my present mood is the result of too much sugar and too little sleep, but I find myself feeling highly critical of the state of things.  In addition to the burglary over New Year&#8217;s, which has made me rethink a few things, I&#8217;ve spent the last week or so hanging out with some of my oldest friends.  We&#8217;ve been talking about plans, life goals and how the world at large is fairly ridiculous right now, politically and economically.  (We&#8217;ve also been playing an absurd amount of video games and even a few rounds of Magic: The Gathering in a flurry of nostalgia.)  It&#8217;s been a lot of fun, and it&#8217;s largely kept me off my computer.   Now that I&#8217;m coming back to the Net, I find myself asking some disturbing questions.  <i>Is this still important?  What matters?<\/i>  I had planned to begin publishing the new issue tomorrow, but now I can&#8217;t bring myself to do it.  There&#8217;s too much else out there right now that&#8217;s demanding my attention.  Reading, for instance; if I read as many pages on paper that I read online each day, I could probably polish off a classic a week.  <i>Would that matter?<\/i>  I don&#8217;t know.  I&#8217;m not sure.  Given a choice between being a freelance creative consultant and going to grad school, I know which one I&#8217;d rather do, hands down.  Maybe it&#8217;s time that I started dedicating more of my time to that goal.<\/P><P>No new issue tomorrow, folks.  It&#8217;s been postponed on account of a philosophical crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wound up staying up absurdly late last night surfing the Net, looking for new and interesting projects. I know that my present mood is the result of too much sugar and too little sleep, but I find myself feeling highly critical of the state of things. In addition to the burglary over New Year&#8217;s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-1h","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}