{"id":1676,"date":"2007-10-20T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/temporary_separ\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:51:39","slug":"temporary_separ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/temporary_separ\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Click to see a bigger version\" href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/bushwick_loft.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/bushwick_loft-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The early days in Bushwick\" width=\"100%\" height=\"288\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>People are always surprised to hear<\/strong> that I haven\u2019t been homesick all year. Although there are lots of things \u2014 and certainly lots of people \u2014 that I miss, I was really ready to leave the States, and in particular to leave New York. I\u2019m notoriously nomadic and it\u2019s certainly possible that I\u2019ll feel like settling in New York again, but it will be a while.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I heard this <a title=\"Check 'em out\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lcdsoundsystem.com\">LCD Soundsystem<\/a> song that put its finger on some of what drove me away:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LCD Soundsystem \u2014 <i><a href=\"ftp:\/\/ultrasparky.org:21\/\/ultrasparky.org\/media\/New%20York,%20I%20Love%20You%20But%20You're%20Bringing%20Me%20Down.mp3\">New York, I Love You But You&#8217;re Bringing Me Down<\/a><\/i> (<a title=\"Buy it at iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=219193697&amp;s=143441&amp;i=219193769\">buy it<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are always surprised to hear that I haven\u2019t been homesick all year. Although there are lots of things \u2014 and certainly lots of people \u2014 that I miss, I was really ready to leave the States, and in particular to leave New York. I\u2019m notoriously nomadic and it\u2019s certainly possible that I\u2019ll feel like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/temporary_separ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Temporary separation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultramedia","category-ultrapersonal","category-ultraphotographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71378,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/71378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}