{"id":2923,"date":"2013-09-01T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T01:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2013-09-01T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T01:23:50","slug":"sept-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/sept-1-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 1, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you decide what you&#8217;d like to become? What informs that decision and how can you know it&#8217;s the right one?<\/p>\n<p>A very good friend of mine will be returning from Burning Man in a couple days. I am eagerly awaiting the report. My sources have thus far painted an overwhelmingly negative picture about what the event has become since hitting mainstream culture. This guy, though, I trust more than others. He&#8217;s been around. We&#8217;ll see what kind of experience he had.<\/p>\n<p>He lived with a tribe in the Amazon for 9 months doing his dissertation, and it was a culture that used hallucinogenic plants on a weekly basis. So, in addition to having roamed the galaxy and back, he understands the human relationship to the mystical. We&#8217;ll see what Burning Man was for him. A bunch of druggie hipsters looking for the next thing to add to their tattoo collection, or actual progressive culture in which humanity can explore itself further, and in meaningful ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you decide what you&#8217;d like to become? What informs that decision and how can you know it&#8217;s the right one? A very good friend of mine will be returning from Burning Man in a couple days. I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/sept-1-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}