{"id":1699,"date":"2008-12-11T22:16:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T06:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2008-12-11T22:16:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T06:16:56","slug":"settling-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/settling-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Settling down and breathing in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought you&#8217;d like to know the hormone tornado is over and I am much at peace with the world. I&#8217;ve been walking a lot, and hanging out with my totally awesome husband and feeling comfortable with my general irresponsibility. But I really should get to work now, seeing as it&#8217;s 10pm and I haven&#8217;t done a lick. I&#8217;m too antsy to be moonlighting right now. Don&#8217;t tell my husband. Oh wait, he probably noticed already.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of secrets, it seems to be the dominating topic this week. Have you noticed lately how much of the &#8220;private&#8221; has become so overly public? everything from hearing way too detailed of private cellphone conversations on the bus to way too much information being divulged on facebook or blogs. I don&#8217;t really have much to say about the subject, except I find it fascinating and have been daydreaming about having a project where I perform very personal, private arguments or conversations with another real live person in a very, very public place. Because it doesn&#8217;t seem like many people realize just how much more they are potentially complicating their lives&#8230; the funny thing is, I wonder if people would even bat an eyelash. Possibly the project would involve an attempt to see just how personal you have to get to evoke a reaction. Seriously, over the past 10 years we&#8217;ve watched tv shows about strangers thrown together in fish bowl-like situations, we know too much information about celebrity&#8217;s personal lives, even our next president is being turned into a petri dish of personal. We&#8217;re numb to it all, so talking about the std we contracted from our cheating boyfriend on a crowded bus doesn&#8217;t seem inappropriate anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I realize I get pretty personal in this here blog sometimes, but I&#8217;m always checking myself to see if I&#8217;m really comfortable divulging details of my personal life&#8230; and somewhere along the way I came up with rules for myself about what was appropriate or not, as far as publishing in a public forum was concerned. Most of the time I feel comfortable saying things of a slightly personal nature because I feel I share this world with humans, and we all feeling similar things, right? And sometimes knowing someone else is going through something similar, can make you feel a little more connected to the world, I know it makes me feel more connected when I read something I can relate to.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, who knows. All I know is, this phenomenon of sharing the very personal, very publicly, it&#8217;s new, really new. It has been developing rapidly over the last 10 years and I&#8217;m not so sure it&#8217;s always a good thing for us, you know? Maybe we should just take a deep breath before hitting that publish button. Be personal, but be consciously personal, that&#8217;s my advice for you today. And try to have a sense of humor about it all, ok? We&#8217;re all just creatures of the earth and we can&#8217;t take things too seriously or we&#8217;ll all crack up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought you&#8217;d like to know the hormone tornado is over and I am much at peace with the world. I&#8217;ve been walking a lot, and hanging out with my totally awesome husband and feeling comfortable with my general irresponsibility. But I really should get to work now, seeing as it&#8217;s 10pm and I haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}