{"id":1030,"date":"2006-10-17T23:59:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T06:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2006-10-18T00:11:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T07:11:19","slug":"when-the-lights-are-shining-in-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"When the lights are shining in your eyes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to guess what happens when you&#8217;re in front of a crowd. I&#8217;m not nervous talking in front of groups, but sometimes I just start getting twitchy. I bet if a cop stopped me I&#8217;d have trouble catching my breath. And today at the gym I talked to the, &#8220;Hot Acupuncture Student,&#8221; and I had a hard time focusing or completing my sentences. It was like being in high school again. (She talked to me because I saw her at her school, the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, and she was trying to remember who I was then.)<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I&#8217;m just beginning to remember what I said. I hope it wasn&#8217;t too awkward.<\/p>\n<p>In clarification to previous ramblings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know why, but I don&#8217;t like the Chicago Bears. (I could probably come up with reasons, and Jim McMahon is probably high on the list.)<\/li>\n<li>I do <strong>NOT<\/strong> play World of Warcraft. My computer games usually consist of installing beta software and cursing loudly when things don&#8217;t work right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to guess what happens when you&#8217;re in front of a crowd. I&#8217;m not nervous talking in front of groups, but sometimes I just start getting twitchy. I bet if a cop stopped me I&#8217;d have trouble catching my breath. And today at the gym I talked to the, &#8220;Hot Acupuncture Student,&#8221; and I had a hard time focusing or completing my sentences. It was like being in high school again. (She talked to me because I saw her at her school, the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, and she was trying to remember who I was then.) In any case, I&#8217;m just beginning to remember what I said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When the lights are shining in your eyes.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}