{"id":4290,"date":"2021-05-03T22:21:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2021-05-03T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:21:42","slug":"the-history-of-me-part-xxii-a-scanner-darkly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4290","title":{"rendered":"The History of Me, Part XXII: A Scanner Darkly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See, NOW it&#8217;s obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, I wondered on here whether or not Winona Ryder knew she was &#8220;dating&#8221; me in college.  Well, now I know!<\/p>\n<p>Holy shit, lol.  Wow, SO obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Okay then.<\/p>\n<p>Reeeeeal obvious, this movie is.  Just like Linklater&#8217;s <em>Waking Life<\/em>, this is&#8230; so direct, so&#8230; me, in my college years, that it almost defies analysis.  I mean, why bother?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, ok, I get it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s all there- Winona herself, the drug addictions, my friends, and everything else that is relevant.  There&#8217;s so much in fact that I won&#8217;t take the time to list it all.<\/p>\n<p>And me, and my &#8220;condition&#8221;.  And the ending, with the flower.  Ha- I get it.  I actually remember that flower from my youth.  I mean, <em>I get it<\/em>, so incredibly powerfully.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, well, there it is, then.<\/p>\n<p>Good to know these things!  <\/p>\n<p>But still, guys&#8230; you really should have told me.  It&#8217;s like I&#8217;ve said earlier on this blog, many many times over- effective communication is <em>honest <\/em>communication.  Honesty is the way to do it- look at this blog.  See?  Honesty is what makes this stuff work.  It&#8217;s the lifeblood of everything that is&#8230; IDK, good?  <\/p>\n<p>Seriously, guys.  You really need to tell people.  Honestly, Winona really should&#8217;ve told me (and I guess she did, through this movie and probably a bunch of others, though NEVER DIRECTLY, and that is key) but&#8230; ugh, wow, alright, fine.<\/p>\n<p>Jeez.<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>Ok then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, NOW it&#8217;s obvious. Years ago, I wondered on here whether or not Winona Ryder knew she was &#8220;dating&#8221; me in college. Well, now I know! Holy shit, lol. Wow, SO obvious. Yikes. Okay then. Reeeeeal obvious, this movie is. Just like Linklater&#8217;s Waking Life, this is&#8230; so direct, so&#8230; me, in my college years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4292,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}