{"id":59,"date":"2003-04-19T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2003-04-19T20:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2005-02-04T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T09:59:36","slug":"pepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/19\/pepper\/","title":{"rendered":"pepper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sometimes I miss dating.<br \/>\nMost of the time, I don&#8217;t.<br \/>\nSometimes I miss the USA.<br \/>\nMost of the time, I don&#8217;t.<br \/>\nI do miss NYC almost all of the time.<br \/>\nI similarly often feel (actully, not even often &#8211; ALL of the time) that the Bushes<br \/>\n(Jr and Sr) suck.<br \/>\nI like art most of the time, but find most artists to be self-indulgent.<br \/>\nI feel the same about myself sometimes.<br \/>\nI like to learn.<br \/>\nI like to make stuff.<br \/>\nI like to teach.<br \/>\nI like to see stuff.<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:me@nathanielstern.com?subject=I%20think%20I%20would%20enjoy%20being%20a%20pepper&#038;body=Mr.%20Stern,%20you%20may%20be%20crazy,%20but%20it%20just%20may%20be%20a%20lunatic%20I%27m%20looking%20for.\">Wouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nyou like to be a pepper, too?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I miss dating. Most of the time, I don&#8217;t. Sometimes I miss the USA. Most of the time, I don&#8217;t. I do miss NYC almost all of the time. I similarly often feel (actully, not even often &#8211; ALL of the time) that the Bushes (Jr and Sr) suck. I like art most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9blZT-pepper","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":725,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/22\/sometimes-i-miss-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":0},"title":"sometimes i miss it","author":"nathaniel","date":"22 August 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Spent a lot of my time over the last couple of days working on a video art work for a show Aryan Kaganof is putting together in Holland. 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