{"id":260,"date":"2000-10-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/10\/20\/vittles_for_the\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T18:35:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T23:35:48","slug":"vittles_for_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/10\/20\/vittles_for_the\/","title":{"rendered":"Vittles for the Vultures"},"content":{"rendered":"

But you don\u2019t want to read about my computers anymore.<\/strong> I know you people, I know you just want to feast on the juicy details of my personal life. Vultures! Voyeurs! All of you! It\u2019s OK, I understand, and I realize that things have been a little tame (lame) around here lately. It seems to be a regular problem for the weblog\/diary set. At some point, we must come to grips with the amount of self-censorship we do knowing that we\u2019re writing about our personal thoughts, but in a public forum. Although I try to be accurate about what I address, I\u2019m actually not nearly as forthcoming as the existence of this site would suggest. Oh relax, I\u2019m not eating babies or kidnapping Cub scouts or go-go dancing or knocking off diplomats for the CIA or anything (not that all of that doesn\u2019t sound pretty fun), but I find myself often choosing not to mention something I\u2019ve done or said because I\u2019m anticipating that it may provoke a reaction from one or more people that I just don\u2019t want to deal with. (Then there are also all the times that I\u2019m just tired to write about something so I decide to skip it, but that\u2019s another problem altogether.) It\u2019s vexing, because I enjoy working things out in my head by writing them down in a somewhat lucid fashion, and it’s nice to get shit off my chest once in a while, but I can\u2019t ignore the fact that maintaining the site has become more of a conversation with a bunch of friends and strangers than a private vehicle for catharsis (with a self-conscious wink toward a small handful of readers). Ah, the perils of success.<\/p>\n

So here is my pledge: I\u2019m going to try and stop pulling punches. I\u2019m going to try and resume getting to the meat of things, instead of just carefully dashing off pithy asides and generating my own spin. I don\u2019t intend to put my whole life on display here, since nothing helps out a story a like a lot of judicious editing. I\u2019m not trying to play the exhbitionist, and I always want to leave more levels and facets unrevealed so that there’s a differnece between me and the public face I maintain on the site. But I want to get back to the spirit with which I began UltraSparky \u2014 the spirit of shameless self-indulgence, coy confession, and light-hearted insight.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, if you think you’ve been missing anything, feel free to write me<\/a> with your theories and specific questions. If you make a convincing plea, I’ll spill any of the beans you request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But you don\u2019t want to read about my computers anymore. I know you people, I know you just want to feast on the juicy details of my personal life. Vultures! Voyeurs! All of you! It\u2019s OK, I understand, and I realize that things have been a little tame (lame) around here lately. It seems to … Continue reading “Vittles for the Vultures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71876,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/71876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}