{"id":586,"date":"2004-01-15T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/586"},"modified":"2004-01-15T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T17:40:00","slug":"daytime-truths-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/586","title":{"rendered":"Daytime Truths Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin, my nighttime boss (why does that sound dirty?) has declared my daytime work to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silversnail.com\/shop\/m-main.html\">&#8220;essentially, doing nothing&#8221;<\/a>. While this is not really accurate, I will play along, and attempt to capture the essence of office workers engaging in moments of daytime nothingness. And I choose to do so in haiku.<\/p>\n<p>In the next Census<br \/>\nI will write: Occupation?<br \/>\n&#8220;Surfer&#8221; (internet)<\/p>\n<p>Afternoon crawls by<br \/>\nLike a man with broken legs:<br \/>\nSlow, painful, dragging<\/p>\n<p>In my office-womb<br \/>\nHours expand like a mother&#8217;s<br \/>\nStomach before birth<\/p>\n<p>Watching digital<br \/>\nTime pass, I miss analog,<br \/>\nSeconds ticking by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin, my nighttime boss (why does that sound dirty?) has declared my daytime work to be &#8220;essentially, doing nothing&#8221;. While this is not really accurate, I will play along, and attempt to capture the essence of office workers engaging in moments of daytime nothingness. And I choose to do so in haiku. In the next <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/586\">[&hellip;]<\/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-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}