{"id":1730,"date":"2006-05-16T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2006-05-16T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T21:21:00","slug":"a-strange-reluctance-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"A strange reluctance to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so, Minneapolis hasn&#8217;t been the greatest for me.  So, why am I so hesitant to leave?  Is it the gnawing feeling that I could have done better?  The feeling that I never really got to know the place, because I was so profoundly wrapped up in my own little internal dramas?  Enh, maybe.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s looking back over the past couple years with a critical eye and thinking of the opportunities missed, the time misspent, they ways I could have done everything better.  And the urge to fix it where possible.  <\/p>\n<p>Reluctance to start over?  Who the hell knows.<\/p>\n<p>I just know I&#8217;ve been dragging ass on my way out the door.  And here I am lounging in the wake of my packing frenzy.  Looking at the few items that I didn&#8217;t push into a bag or a box, somewhere and feeling a bit of despair because I won&#8217;t be able to cram them all into the suitcase space I have.  <\/p>\n<p>I think I need to calm down, chill out.  It&#8217;ll all be okay.  I&#8217;ll head up to Chicago tomorrow and get there in the afternoon.  It&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so, Minneapolis hasn&#8217;t been the greatest for me. So, why am I so hesitant to leave? Is it the gnawing feeling that I could have done better? The feeling that I never really got to know the place, because I was so profoundly wrapped up in my own little internal dramas? Enh, maybe. Maybe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A strange reluctance to leave&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}