{"id":630,"date":"2007-05-09T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/05\/09\/for-a-foggy-morning\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T11:56:00","slug":"for-a-foggy-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/05\/09\/for-a-foggy-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"For a Foggy Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I discovered that the video drivers for my eyeballs must have gone bad. My view distance was cut to around 30 yards, with everything farther cloaked in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Distance_fog\" target=\"_new\">thick white fog<\/a>. Perhaps I needed a patch &#8211; Sunlight 3.4?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, the fog this morning gave my commute a truly surreal ambience. Once I&#8217;d travelled a third of the way onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monitor-Merrimac_Bridge-Tunnel\" target=\"_new\">Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel<\/a>, all I could see was a short stretch of driving surface before and aft, with nothing but unfinished whiteness all around. I was driving from nothing into nothing &#8211; it might have been a visual metaphor to describe some kind of magical or high-tech transit. Perhaps this morning I was dropped into a parallel universe with all my memories instantly edited to make me believe that I&#8217;d always lived in a world where the Allies won World War II, and Earth had a single moon.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it takes me a <i>really<\/i> long time to wake up in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I discovered that the video drivers for my eyeballs must have gone bad. My view distance was cut to around 30 yards, with everything farther cloaked in thick white fog. Perhaps I needed a patch &#8211; Sunlight 3.4? Seriously, the fog this morning gave my commute a truly surreal ambience. Once I&#8217;d travelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-aa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}