{"id":422,"date":"2010-01-20T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2010\/01\/20\/a-brain-like-a-bowl-of-warm-oatmeal\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T02:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:57:00","slug":"a-brain-like-a-bowl-of-warm-oatmeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2010\/01\/20\/a-brain-like-a-bowl-of-warm-oatmeal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brain Like a Bowl of Warm Oatmeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when things stop making sense.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I cared about how Kate Chopin&#8217;s &#8220;D\u00e9sir\u00e9e&#8217;s Baby&#8221; exemplifies the power of race in society in light of Ian F. Haney L\u00f3pez&#8217;s &#8220;The Social Construction of Race.&#8221; I&#8217;m trying hard not to think about it as to work on it as an ant would mindlessly drag a half-bitten leaf, but this bland blank brain just won&#8217;t take it in.<\/p>\n<p>Is there some clue that I&#8217;m failing to understand? I&#8217;m looking for that hidden arrow pointing towards the true direction of my life, some sort of untapped talent or at least something that doesn&#8217;t paralyze me with fear and\/or boredom. The waters of my mind are infested with eels, and not even thick-skinned crocodiles can dive in to help me find that treasured epiphany everybody seems to have at some point in their youth when they just <i>know<\/i> what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Everybody seems so full of resolve, and I only stare at waves leaving algae on a faraway shore like an endless offering to an unknown god. If only the waves would bring me something too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when things stop making sense. I wish I cared about how Kate Chopin&#8217;s &#8220;D\u00e9sir\u00e9e&#8217;s Baby&#8221; exemplifies the power of race in society in light of Ian F. Haney L\u00f3pez&#8217;s &#8220;The Social Construction of Race.&#8221; I&#8217;m trying hard not to think about it as to work on it as an ant would mindlessly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}