{"id":2902,"date":"2020-04-16T20:12:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2020-04-16T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:12:31","slug":"sixteen-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/16\/sixteen-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure if I wrote yesterday, but it looks like I did put at least a little something up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why it&#8217;s a compulsion, I suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s prompt was an urge to have a video conference with friends on something like Google Hnagouts, Zoom, FB Live, whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody really wants to see me, but I suppose there is something that someone might want to hear my ever-slowing speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday nights, as all this has been going on, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hrgeeks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">HR Geeks<\/a> folks have been getting together on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jitsi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jitsi<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was fun enough that I decided to drop some cash to buy a webcam I can use with this wheezing PC I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s tomorrow night.  Did I really meet the challenge for the day?  (Yes, I said that I did in the self-scoring.  After all, it is a different platform, maybe less open to random interlopers.  Really.  Nobody wants to see that, bro.  Seriously.  Because there&#8217;s something wrong with me, I can&#8217;t help but think of <em>Fight Club<\/em> when I hear stories like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/fairfax-schools-online-harassment\/2020\/04\/15\/841b0406-7f3b-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> on the news.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second half of the month is underway, and I feel like I should feel more shut-in.  But I don&#8217;t.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for whatever reason, although I&#8217;ve removed my CV from pretty much every job site, I can&#8217;t get the arts major corporate recruiters to go away.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve got the skills you&#8217;re looking for.  No, you don&#8217;t have the situation I&#8217;m looking for.  I will negotiate, but with every single thing that&#8217;s not completely what I want, it&#8217;s going to cost you more money.  I don&#8217;t have a lot of time or energy left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure if I wrote yesterday, but it looks like I did put at least a little something up. This is why it&#8217;s a compulsion, I suppose. Today&#8217;s prompt was an urge to have a video conference with friends on something like Google Hnagouts, Zoom, FB Live, whatever. Nobody really wants to see me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whar-covid-19-whar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}