{"id":8579,"date":"2016-09-02T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=8579"},"modified":"2016-10-01T05:02:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T09:02:49","slug":"a-many-splintered-thing-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=8579","title":{"rendered":"A many splintered thing (revised)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;\">\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8869\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?attachment_id=8869\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Postcard4.png\" data-orig-size=\"591,412\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"postcard4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Postcard4.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8869\" src=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Postcard4.png\" alt=\"postcard4\" width=\"591\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Postcard4.png 591w, https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Postcard4-202x141.png 202w, https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Postcard4-430x300.png 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/>On the train today I noticed\u00a0this elderly asian lady sitting in the row in front of me. Her hair was up in\u00a0pigtails and\u00a0she wore headphones shaped like a Poke-ball. \u00a0She took them off when the guard spoke to\u00a0her and I\u00a0could hear the &#8220;Phantom of the Opera&#8221; soundtrack very clearly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"s1\">I feel lucky when my reality intersects with such people. And\u00a0she&#8217;s\u00a0probably\u00a0intersecting another\u00a0reality via the opera as well and thinking how lucky she is\u00a0to experience it. Whoa. It\u2019s\u00a0too early to be so meta! I should just enjoy\u00a0whichever reality this is.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the train today I noticed\u00a0this elderly asian lady sitting in the row in front of me. Her hair was up in\u00a0pigtails and\u00a0she wore headphones shaped like a Poke-ball. \u00a0She took them off when the guard spoke to\u00a0her and I\u00a0could hear the &#8220;Phantom of the Opera&#8221; soundtrack very clearly. I feel lucky when my reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11486,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postcard","category-writing","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pDxlf-2en","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579\/revisions\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}