{"id":32,"date":"2005-02-05T22:03:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T02:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=32"},"modified":"2005-02-05T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-06T02:03:53","slug":"still_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/02\/still_here\/","title":{"rendered":"Still here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWell, I haven&#8217;t gone anywhere. Always here, following the same routine. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading though. Online and off-line, something that would make my pen-pal, <a href=\"www.biroco.com\/journal.htm\">Joel Biroco<\/a>, happy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t have many excuses for not writing. I stopped writing after I sent the entry about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/archives\/2004_08.html\">Misguided Targets<\/a>. I suppose a lot of frustration went into making that observation. The situation with the war in Iraq &#8211;which hasn&#8217;t improved that I can see&#8211;, the Presidential Race (lost), the U.S. rapport with the rest of the world, etc., can bring that kind of commentaries out of an observant person. I mean, if you do share such a vantage point of view.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI won&#8217;t get into the controversy of analyzing the &#8220;other&#8221; half of the American population. Suffice is to say that I see it as refusing to let go of a bad marriage: when divorce is out of the question, you just try to carry it the best way you can.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the practical side of things, I&#8217;ve been redesigning my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/bitacora\/\">Spanish blog<\/a> and adding some links. Lots of what I believe is very good writing is done in Spanish.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s hope I can keep the commitment and write more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I haven&#8217;t gone anywhere. Always here, following the same routine. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading though. Online and off-line, something that would make my pen-pal, Joel Biroco, happy. I don&#8217;t have many excuses for not writing. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/02\/still_here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}