{"id":197,"date":"2013-08-17T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T03:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2013-12-29T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T04:42:34","slug":"strangerness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"strangerness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_0512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-185 alignright\" title=\"what's that?\" alt=\"IMG_0512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_0512-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_0512-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_0512-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_0512.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve been doing this thing lately, mostly on the bus into town. it&#8217;s the same route, day in, day out. you know how your mind works, filtering out the massive amount of information you don&#8217;t need to make your way safely to wherever it it you&#8217;re going?<\/p>\n<p>i decided to start noticing things.<\/p>\n<p>new things. or really, old things that my eyes must have passed over. at first it&#8217;s just, hey look &#8212; a hooka shop. over there, a weird tall wrought iron fence. and has that building always been pink? (probably.) and then there&#8217;s the random thingies passing by randomly in the flatbed of a random truck&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>when you&#8217;re in a new city your brain hasn&#8217;t figured out what to filter. and you see. you see things that the people who live there take for granted. and for me, i get this feeling of strangerness. it&#8217;s a very specific sensation.<\/p>\n<p>now i&#8217;m able to induce it at home. apparently, i like it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been doing this thing lately, mostly on the bus into town. it&#8217;s the same route, day in, day out. you know how your mind works, filtering out the massive amount of information you don&#8217;t need to make your way safely to wherever it it you&#8217;re going? i decided to start noticing things. new things. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[101,8],"tags":[124,125,123],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-play","category-tales","tag-bus-rides","tag-random","tag-strangerness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FBNg-3b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}