{"id":24,"date":"2007-06-09T09:15:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T14:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/2007\/06\/09\/passing-friends\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:01:11","slug":"passing-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/2007\/06\/09\/passing-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"passing friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>every time i turn around in dc, i see another random friend: first al from trinity rep, who has since moved to dc as gm at ford&#8217;s, shows up at tech; then rob and jessie, also from providence, see me standing outside the theatre checking my voicemail as they drive down the street; then a drive by from wendy from atl as i walk to union station&#8230;  it&#8217;s started getting freaky.<\/p>\n<p>but it&#8217;s been great to catch up with friends i expect to see in dc as well.  even though suzie was too busy to respond to my email, we bumped into each other at tunnicliff&#8217;s one night.  i go to go to the outstanding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saint-ex.com\/\">saint ex<\/a> for dinner with amelia and liz and mike where i fell in love with a fried green tomato blt and caught up with those crazy dance kids.  then, after staying in dc longer than planned for tech, i decided to stay through the weekend so i can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theseaandcake.com\/\">the sea and cake<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcatdc.com\/\">the black cat<\/a> saturday, since this never ending tech in dc kept me from going to their free show in new york on thursday.  so yesterday i made it out to baltimore with amelia to have sushi with ej and their b&#8217;more area friends.  a viewing of team america projected across the alley from amelia&#8217;s roof got cancelled by the rain, but she and i ended up in this fantastic bar around the corner, drinking fine beer and bourbon and solving the problems of the arts in america.  no, i swear, we figured it all out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>all this makes me want to take some time off and visit my friends where they live, to catch up, but also to vicariously steal little slices of their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>every time i turn around in dc, i see another random friend: first al from trinity rep, who has since moved to dc as gm at ford&#8217;s, shows up at tech; then rob and jessie, also from providence, see me standing outside the theatre checking my voicemail as they drive down the street; then a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthubbs.com\/blahg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}