{"id":888,"date":"2009-04-07T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T04:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=888"},"modified":"2009-04-08T22:19:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T05:19:25","slug":"antithese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2009\/04\/07\/antithese\/","title":{"rendered":"antith\u00e8se"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a break from the horror that is the undergrad thesis. I present, in no particular order, thoughts which have been percolating in my brain lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m growing increasingly dissatisfied with the local rag. At first, there was this sensationalist reporter whose articles I read with a general kind of distaste. Then, the sports pages (this is how I follow sports) caught the same bug; one writer consistently abuses the cadences and vocabulary of a casual register. OK, I&#8217;m being a bit judgmental here. And maybe it&#8217;s my objective scientist training coming to the fore. But is it so much to ask for a little professionalism? Not every piece needs to have your personality written all over it. If I wanted that, I&#8217;d read a column.<\/li>\n<li>In the same vein: I&#8217;d like to take a second job as a copy editor for said paper. Then I too can make money while doing nothing. (I&#8217;m not sure people will ever spell Sarah McLachlan&#8217;s surname correctly. I recently read an article where it was spelled two different ways. Incorrectly, both times.) <\/li>\n<li>The cherries are blooming, finally. I&#8217;m glad the weather is nice and they can last for at least a day or two&#8211;but I&#8217;m already seeing petals on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been looking at more indie music lately. I kind of&#8211;I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about it. Looking for indie music seems like an oxymoron; if a musician is truly indie you&#8217;ll never have heard of them. If you haven&#8217;t heard of them&#8230; you can&#8217;t look for them. Simple as that. Surprisingly, I&#8217;ve discovered that Dallas Green does manage to pull off his City and Colour act quite well, and I do rather like <em>Sometimes<\/em>. <em>Bring Me Your Love<\/em> is a little vanilla, even for my tastes. Other groups which have caught my fancy lately: Stars, Hallelujah the Hills, Broken Social Scene.<\/li>\n<li>I have my last undergraduate lectures tomorrow. Strange. I don&#8217;t really have a sense of things ending, like I did in high school. Perhaps that&#8217;s just the stress of the thesis talking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a break from the horror that is the undergrad thesis. I present, in no particular order, thoughts which have been percolating in my brain lately: I&#8217;m growing increasingly dissatisfied with the local rag. At first, there was this sensationalist reporter whose articles I read with a general kind of distaste. Then, the sports pages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,67],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotidian","tag-music","tag-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}