{"id":177,"date":"2005-08-02T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T08:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=177"},"modified":"2005-08-02T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T08:36:15","slug":"dark-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/08\/02\/dark-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/2005.08.01.a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-917\" title=\"2005.08.01.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/2005.08.01.a-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/2005.08.01.b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-918\" title=\"2005.08.01.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/2005.08.01.b-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Dark has been the cloud that hung over the month of July. Between the constant problems at work and at home, I&#8217;d hate to imagine what would&#8217;ve become of me if not for the occasional bits that managed to bring a smile back to my face. It was good seeing some old faces earlier in the month, when I took a quick trip back home to Brooklyn to attend an old <a href=\" http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/~teper\/\">friend&#8217;s<\/a> wedding. It was my first experience at a Russian-Jewish wedding, complete with caviar and other exotic foods, speeches from relatives in broken English, and festive live Latin music and dancing. We also revisited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeshakespeare.org\">Shakespeare on the Commons<\/a> the following weekend with my new roommate from Germany to see the highly-anticipated performance of Hamlet. But with the stark, modern production design and some grossly-exaggerated overacting, we found the whole thing rather difficult to swallow. Fortunately, Melody&#8217;s week-long vacation last week took me on a most delicious culinary journey at home to carry me through the brutal month. Though we wished we could&#8217;ve taken a trip somewhere, we ultimately settled for a short getaway on Saturday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/northeast\/wldn.htm\">Walden Pond<\/a>. Our quiet afternoon there helped me recenter my thoughts, amidst the fresh scent of pine trees, sounds of falling leaves, and memories of Trascendentalist legends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark has been the cloud that hung over the month of July. Between the constant problems at work and at home, I&#8217;d hate to imagine what would&#8217;ve become of me if not for the occasional bits that managed to bring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/08\/02\/dark-july\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}