{"id":3501,"date":"2010-07-06T14:57:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2014-03-30T14:28:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:28:19","slug":"exfoliating-hate-using-super-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/exfoliating-hate-using-super-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Exfoliating hate using super-reality."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no pictures of the weekend before midsummer because my skills failed me. Or in more practical terms: I relaxed the crap out of myself and couldn&#8217;t be arsed to take pictures. Sara, I and Petter left for the countryside for a couple of days, staying at his cottage an hour north of Gothenburg. I slept until late noon, had a breakfast consisting of more than oats, and then sat with a coffee on the porch, forcing my way through the shittier parts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Night%27s_Dawn_Trilogy\">Nights Dawn trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The whole experience was such a sensory overload of idyllic post-card super-reality it had me giggling. It&#8217;s difficult to take such an experience seriously. It&#8217;s not only that I&#8217;m slightly high-strung and can&#8217;t really relax properly, but also because reading a book for five hours straight is something so unproblematic by body doesn&#8217;t know what to do with itself. This hasn&#8217;t happened since I was a teenager, and since then relaxing into a book has been rather more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Had Bambi showed up and fallen asleed in my lap it wouldn&#8217;t have made the place and experience any less extreme. This kind of existence is what is allured to when advertising a product which is supposed to appeal to a sense of <em>Sweden<\/em>. Only the hangover on Sunday reminded me of home, but even that was soothed by wind, water and dozing off on the porch.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, my cracking knuckles found their way into Saras snoozing. I would make for a really poor ninja, but we knew that already. Polish people aren&#8217;t ninjas, we dress in fur hats and kill people from horseback. Failing that, we charm our friends into helping us in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>[x_video_embed no_container=&#8221;true&#8221;]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/12968221\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>[\/x_video_embed]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no pictures of the weekend before midsummer because my skills failed me. Or in more practical terms: I relaxed the crap out of myself and couldn&#8217;t be arsed to take pictures. Sara, I and Petter left for the countryside for a couple of days, staying at his cottage an hour north of Gothenburg. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/exfoliating-hate-using-super-reality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exfoliating hate using super-reality.<\/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":[3,5,7],"tags":[1327,1322,1323,1326,1321,1324,277,1325,1195],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-friends","category-video","tag-benjamin","tag-bliss","tag-contentment","tag-health-camp","tag-idyllic-existence","tag-limbo","tag-petter","tag-resting","tag-sara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5814,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}