{"id":15625,"date":"2008-05-02T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2008\/05\/02\/the-fear-of-closed-gates\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:44","slug":"the-fear-of-closed-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2008\/05\/02\/the-fear-of-closed-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"The fear of closed gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve set two separate alarms, so I&#8217;m ready to go to bed and get up in time for my flight tomorrow. I get so paranoid about oversleeping when I&#8217;ve got a flight to catch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Packing&#8217;s a snap, though, &#8217;cause I&#8217;ve done so much long-term travel the past few years. I&#8217;ve got a quickie mental checklist, and I&#8217;ve developed a habit of buying two of anything for the bathroom, so I have duplicate wash kit ready to go at any time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m off to Prague for a week. I&#8217;ve been busy and done no homework; I&#8217;m a total ignoramus. Or, put more nicely, I am going as <em>tabula rasa<\/em>, <em>wu wei<\/em>, beginner&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In case anything dire should happen, thanks, it&#8217;s been fun.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1094\/the-fear-of-closed-gates0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve set two separate alarms, so I&#8217;m ready to go to bed and get up in time for my flight tomorrow. I get so paranoid about oversleeping when I&#8217;ve got a flight to catch. Packing&#8217;s a snap, though, &#8217;cause I&#8217;ve done so much long-term travel the past few years. I&#8217;ve got a quickie mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-15625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}