{"id":185,"date":"2001-05-15T05:49:13","date_gmt":"2001-05-15T10:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=185"},"modified":"2001-05-15T05:49:13","modified_gmt":"2001-05-15T10:49:13","slug":"everythings-waiting-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/05\/15\/everythings-waiting-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"everything&#8217;s waiting for you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being that I live and work lately in the &#8216;burbs, I was in downtown Toronto today for the first time in a few months. Lovely day, bright, sunny, 25 degrees (that&#8217;s 77 fahrenheit).  Did quite a bit of walking around.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten used to being in the relatively unpopulated open spaces outside the downtown core, so am quite content with the solitude of walking or driving there.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it occurred to me that while downtown, surrounded by huge amounts of humanity and activity, my aloneness and solitude wasn&#8217;t lessened any.  That&#8217;s not to say it was depressing at all, just that despite the sense that you&#8217;re in a large community, you&#8217;re all really islands of solitude milling about without mixing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddharecords.com\/noflash\/audio\/9967101.ram\"> Petula Clark<\/a> seemed to like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being that I live and work lately in the &#8216;burbs, I was in downtown Toronto today for the first time in a few months. Lovely day, bright, sunny, 25 degrees (that&#8217;s 77 fahrenheit). Did quite a bit of walking around. I&#8217;ve gotten used to being in the relatively unpopulated open spaces outside the downtown core, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}