{"id":517,"date":"2006-04-16T19:15:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T23:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/16\/jealousy\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T19:59:26","slug":"jealousy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/16\/jealousy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jealousy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man am I jealous of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thuntek.net\/~walter\/\">Walter Jon Williams<\/a>&#8211;not only is he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thuntek.net\/~walter\/biblio.htm\">a great writer<\/a>, but he has one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/walterjonwilliams.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/jet-lag.html\">adventurous lives<\/a> that I always wish I was living&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But I&#8217;ve seen a lot more than a solar eclipse. I&#8217;ve seen the Dervishes whirl. I&#8217;ve flown in a balloon over the lunar landscape of Cappadocia. I&#8217;ve seen Our Lady of Ephesus, one of the genuine Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. I&#8217;ve participated in a raki-fueled dancing orgy around a blazing bonfire. I&#8217;ve walked on 2000-year-old mosaics, seen a 9000-year-old idol, and seen part of the stone from the Kaaba. I&#8217;ve met the World&#8217;s Greatest Carpet Salesman (and of course bought a carpet). I&#8217;ve been in the harem of the Ottoman sultan&#8212; well, actually two harems. I&#8217;ve seen mosques, mosaics, and muezzins. I&#8217;ve even seen the Prophet&#8217;s beard. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Man am I jealous of Walter Jon Williams&#8211;not only is he a great writer, but he has one of those adventurous lives that I always wish I was living&#8230; But I&#8217;ve seen a lot more than a solar eclipse. I&#8217;ve seen the Dervishes whirl. I&#8217;ve flown in a balloon over the lunar landscape of Cappadocia. I&#8217;ve seen Our Lady of&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/16\/jealousy\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5UQvw-jealousy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}