{"id":6801,"date":"2011-06-15T22:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T02:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2011-06-15T22:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T02:41:48","slug":"dreamt-of-in-your-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6801","title":{"rendered":"Dreamt of in your philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5757777809\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2376\/5757777809_e1399c1d48.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot more of the same at work, trying to get a few things off my plate (or as close as possible) before leaving for a four-day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I took a short break for one of our semi-regular &#8220;brown bag lunches&#8221; at work, where they give us pizza or sandwiches and invite somebody in to speak. Today&#8217;s speaker was Simon Critchley, chair of the department of philosophy of New School and moderator of the <i>New York Times<\/i> philosophy blog <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/category\/the-stone\/\">The Stone<\/a>. It was reasonably interesting, although maybe more about publishing (and his history as author with our company), and less about philosophy proper, than I had expected. Still, not at all uninteresting, and free pizza.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m taking the four-day weekend in no small part because my parents are away, traveling to Ireland for vacation on a group tour. I didn&#8217;t get a chance to see them off this afternoon, but I spoke with them, and expect I probably will again tomorrow after they&#8217;ve landed and settled in. The dog stared wistfully towards the door all evening, and maybe whimpered and sighed a little more than usual, but I think he&#8217;ll manage.<\/p>\n<p>And that was pretty much my&#8230;what was this, Wednesday? Yeah, that was pretty much it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot more of the same at work, trying to get a few things off my plate (or as close as possible) before leaving for a four-day weekend. I took a short break for one of our semi-regular &#8220;brown bag lunches&#8221; at work, where they give us pizza or sandwiches and invite somebody in to &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6801\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,115,52],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-philosophy","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}