{"id":3920,"date":"2011-02-16T04:24:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T02:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2014-03-30T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:28:02","slug":"adjustable-table-adult-rollercoaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/adjustable-table-adult-rollercoaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjustable table: adult rollercoaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[x_video_embed no_container=&#8221;true&#8221;]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20000412?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>[\/x_video_embed]<\/p>\n<p>Last fall I got a grant in order to take some time off, buy some equipment, read a book and hopefully produce some new art. Perhaps not surprisingly, I&#8217;ve done fuck-all since I got that grant except working on non-art related things. What the grant money did get me \u2014\u00a0in addition to a very nice knife, new running shoes and tights, an unending supply of freshly squeezed juice and some new in-ear-headphones \u2014\u00a0is some peace of mind and a bourgeois disposition. Just cause I&#8217;m not flat out broke, I suddenly felt that getting a stockbroker account was a &#8220;sound idea&#8221; and it feels as though I&#8217;m spiraling into a bad habit which will end up with me crashing at the end anyway, when I&#8217;m back to hand-to-mouth.<\/p>\n<p>The new apartment is nice enough but I keep putting off inviting people. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s cause I&#8217;ve still not gotten around to getting a proper lamp in the hall, where the rechargeable flashlight is getting electronically incontinent, or if I&#8217;m in a reclusive state of mind of late. I have an adjustable table which goes up and down at the touch of a button, and standing at it I can watch the ferries pass my window, which is nice and occasionally disconcerting, creating an illusion of the whole building moving. I would have liked to have learned the names of the ships by now but they don&#8217;t seem to stick. Perhaps I need a diagram.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, my barber Hasse told me of a friend of his who, having spent his life and career on land, decided to fulfill his dream and signed on to a ship at the age of 57. He had dreamed of going to sea for all his life, and when he finally badgered the shipping line to give him a chance he concluded after the three month stint that it sucked balls. The moral being that you set some goals for yourself in life, and even if those don&#8217;t become fulfilled at least you did some fun stuff along the way, made some good friends and didn&#8217;t start a genocide or something similarly awful. As morals go, it&#8217;s not that bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[x_video_embed no_container=&#8221;true&#8221;][\/x_video_embed] Last fall I got a grant in order to take some time off, buy some equipment, read a book and hopefully produce some new art. Perhaps not surprisingly, I&#8217;ve done fuck-all since I got that grant except working on non-art related things. What the grant money did get me \u2014\u00a0in addition to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/adjustable-table-adult-rollercoaster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adjustable table: adult rollercoaster<\/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":[3,546,7],"tags":[1379,1377,1378,862,1380,1887,1376],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-projects","category-video","tag-ahoj","tag-learning","tag-life","tag-morals","tag-pining-for-the-fjords","tag-video","tag-vimeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","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=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5806,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/5806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}