{"id":806,"date":"2005-10-27T13:39:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T20:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2005-10-27T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T20:39:46","slug":"random-string-of-unrelated-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/random-string-of-unrelated-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Random String of Unrelated Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>My buddy, the badass printer\/artist Noah Breuer has one of his works on the home page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/frankbettegallery.org\/\">Frank Bette Center for the Arts<\/a>. He&#8217;s now getting his MFA at Columbia. If you&#8217;re in NYC, go check out his stuff. (<a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=435\">Previous post on Noah&#8217;s work<\/a>.)\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/4399508\">Jim Higdon<\/a>, my Columbia j-school classmate, got a bookdeal with Putnam for his book &#8220;The Cornbread Mafia&#8221;, the story of how one rural county in Kentucky became a national center of drug-dealing and how it destroyed the community.\n<\/li>\n<li>My parents bought a Toyota Prius this weekend, and are looking to sell their Ford Expedition (finally!). It&#8217;s looking like I will be learning to drive stick and will take over their Volkswagen Golf.\n<\/li>\n<li>Anxious to get back into the freelancing world. Sent out some emails today and am feeling good. Also spoke with Clark Boyd of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworld.org\/technology\/index.shtml\">The World<\/a><\/i> about getting into radio and maybe doing work for the show and\/or the podcast.\n<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to bookwriting guru <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samuelfreedman.com\">Prof. Sam Freedman<\/a> for sending me two travel books as gifts.\n<\/li>\n<li>While at the grand bazaar in Istanbul, I bought a chess set for 15 YTL ($12), bargained down from the opening price of 50 YTL.\n<\/li>\n<li>As much as I love traveling, it&#8217;s good to come home again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy, the badass printer\/artist Noah Breuer has one of his works on the home page of the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. He&#8217;s now getting his MFA at Columbia. If you&#8217;re in NYC, go check out his stuff. (Previous post on Noah&#8217;s work.) Jim Higdon, my Columbia j-school classmate, got a bookdeal with Putnam for his book &#8220;The Cornbread Mafia&#8221;, the story of how one rural county in Kentucky became a national center of drug-dealing and how it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[147,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-personal","category-turkey","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-d0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}