{"id":8134,"date":"2012-01-18T23:11:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T04:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2012-01-18T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T04:11:58","slug":"where-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8134","title":{"rendered":"Where I am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/6705967499\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7015\/6705967499_8f18160fab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided this was going to be the year I finally move out. I moved back home to New York in the summer of 2004, and that, amazingly, was almost eight years ago now. Of course, now I&#8217;m faced with the very real possibility that I don&#8217;t earn enough yearly to buy a place of my own, at least not anyplace nice, in New York. I&#8217;m looking at down payments I quite possibly can&#8217;t afford on mortgages I quite possibly won&#8217;t get, which run for decades longer than I quite possibly want to live there, and that&#8217;s even before property taxes and interest rates and monthly expenses. But still, I got in touch with a realtor in Queens a few days ago, and I&#8217;ve said I&#8217;ll try to call her tomorrow, even though that might prove difficult at work. <\/p>\n<p>This was so much easier when I was just renting an apartment, and when I was dealing with central Pennsylvanian prices.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, and all the talk on Twitter and elsewhere about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/arts-post\/post\/sopapipa-blackout-the-day-the-lolcats-died\/2012\/01\/18\/gIQAegCt7P_blog.html\">SOPA and PIPA<\/a>, it was a pretty ordinary day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided this was going to be the year I finally move out. I moved back home to New York in the summer of 2004, and that, amazingly, was almost eight years ago now. Of course, now I&#8217;m faced with the very real possibility that I don&#8217;t earn enough yearly to buy a place of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8134\">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":[27,28],"class_list":["post-8134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134"}],"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=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}