{"id":67,"date":"2007-10-25T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2007-10-25T23:43:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T03:43:04","slug":"socrates-on-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Socrates on the Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2parse.com\/\/images\/socrates.gif?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"Socrates on the LIRR\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the way home today, I sat next to this man who I dubbed &#8220;Socrates on the LIRR&#8221;.\u00a0 He got off in Merrick &#8211; a thoroughly unphilosophical place.\u00a0 He was also carrying a cell phone &#8211; which seems to undermine any reflection in my experience.\u00a0 But he held it in his hands constantly instead of putting it in a pocket, which contributed to his other-ness.\u00a0 But the book he was carrying had no title, gold lining, and was ancient looking.\u00a0 He was constantly rubbing his beard in thought.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the story of my ride home on the train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home today, I sat next to this man who I dubbed &#8220;Socrates on the LIRR&#8221;.\u00a0 He got off in Merrick &#8211; a thoroughly unphilosophical place.\u00a0 He was also carrying a cell phone &#8211; which seems to undermine any reflection in my experience.\u00a0 But he held it in his hands constantly instead of [&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":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-15","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}