{"id":286,"date":"2002-03-21T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2002-03-21T20:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2009-08-08T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T00:06:51","slug":"hooray-for-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/hooray-for-new-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"hooray for new friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always refreshing to introduce something new into your life. like new people. so a while back I met this guy on a plane on my way back to fremont. he&#8217;s a few years older, is already working as a software developer for an insurance company, but is probably the coolest programmer-type person I&#8217;ve ever met. the guy was a bassist in this neat little band in college. a BASSIST! I love bassists. Adam Clayton&#8217;s a bassist. -wink- so was Mike from Common Rotation, but he&#8217;s an ass. More on that story later. ;-)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, this guy and I have managed to stay in touch. It&#8217;s amazing how much difference a few years can make on a person&#8217;s perspective. Three years is enough to add some insight into one&#8217;s life, but is not enough to cause toooo huge of a gap.   We&#8217;ve hung out a few times, and discovered we have some overlapping musical interests, the primary one being U2. He&#8217;s been introducing me to a bunch of other music.. and i&#8217;ve loving it loving it loving it!<\/p>\n<p>recent discoveries: the pixies. the rentals. cake (never really got into them much before, but nooooow&#8230;). blur. blur and radiohead.<\/p>\n<p>more on this later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always refreshing to introduce something new into your life. like new people. so a while back I met this guy on a plane on my way back to fremont. he&#8217;s a few years older, is already working as a software developer for an insurance company, but is probably the coolest programmer-type person I&#8217;ve ever &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/hooray-for-new-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;hooray for new friends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}