{"id":1274,"date":"2009-06-29T18:50:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T22:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2009-06-29T20:53:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T00:53:15","slug":"cnn-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/cnn-international\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the international CNN station anchored by a woman with a vague British accent at 1am when I should be sleeping, but can&#8217;t because the temperature in the room I&#8217;m subletting is swealtering and the Chicago humidity hasn&#8217;t been rained out yet by the thunderstorms rolling through daily, is comforting. Comforting like being in your bed at home. Comforting like walking into an air conditioned room on a hot day. Comforting like kissing someone you&#8217;ve kissed ten thousand times.<\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s accent, the cricket highlights and the semi-canned clips that remind me of a windowless hotel room in Shanghai combine to remind me that some intangible force that is exponentially larger than anything I could ever dream of comprehending comes and goes with each passing day. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, here I am, sitting at my desk above the shadows of street lights lining up the minutiae of my daily life like dominoes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written from 6:25pm to 6:45pm on Monday, June 29th, 2009 at the new Starbucks on Halsted Street north of Greektown, Chicago, IL.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the international CNN station anchored by a woman with a vague British accent at 1am when I should be sleeping, but can&#8217;t because the temperature in the room I&#8217;m subletting is swealtering and the Chicago humidity hasn&#8217;t been rained out yet by the thunderstorms rolling through daily, is comforting. Comforting like being in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[1159,1158,900,48],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20-minutes","category-writing","tag-20-minutes","tag-writing","tag-cnn","tag-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}