{"id":72,"date":"2003-11-03T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/wp-acr\/?p=72"},"modified":"2004-06-06T20:39:31","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T03:39:31","slug":"borrowed-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Borrowed life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m here in the city.  Loving it, given the wonderful accommodations found and the continued company of friends that had just relocated up here as well as I just did.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to everything.  Farther from only a few things that I miss and some that I wish to remain at a distance at this point in time.<\/p>\n<p>But it all feels borrowed.  I wonder why.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYet one can wonder even when things are pretty obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Borrowed because the clock is ticking, soon I should be on my way to the next chapter of my professional as well as personal books.<\/p>\n<p>Borrowed because the surrounding has been (magnificently) set up by somebody else.  Much in the same way I would have done it myself, which is the main reason I fit like a glove in here.<\/p>\n<p>Borrowed because even if I wanted to prolong the stay, there is a clear expiration date, if only I could have somebody stamp it on the bottle already things might even be easier than they are.<\/p>\n<p>Now, tell me: who cares if it is\/feels borrowed?  Live it out loud &#8230; live today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m here in the city. Loving it, given the wonderful accommodations found and the continued company of friends that had just relocated up here as well as I just did. Closer to everything. Farther from only a few things that I miss and some that I wish to remain at a distance at this point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ncoG-1a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}