{"id":333,"date":"2008-12-26T18:25:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisammon.wordpress.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2008-12-26T18:25:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T18:25:49","slug":"afflicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"I blame Neruda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-344\" title=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/chrisammon.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/images.jpg?w=72\" alt=\"images\" width=\"72\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I&#8217;ve become recently afflicted with a severe case of\u00a0 inarticulate-ness, an experience of total grammatical-breakdown and incoherence which is making itself evident in this very sentence as I write it.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been studying too much Spanish in the last few days, obsessively trying to translate Pablo Neruda poems into English. Or maybe it&#8217;s because right now I&#8217;m getting distracted by the Brazilian couple who audaciously make out in the middle of this beachfront cafe. I don&#8217;t know. But, for now, as the very structure of the English language crumbles around me and I wallow in subject-confusion and intimacy-envy, I refer you to the wonderful and inspiring holiday blog of one of the more articulate people I know &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ht<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffgreenwald.com\/category\/blog\/\">tp:\/\/www.jeffgreenwald.com\/category\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I&#8217;ve become recently afflicted with a severe case of\u00a0 inarticulate-ness, an experience of total grammatical-breakdown and incoherence which is making itself evident in this very sentence as I write it.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/?p=333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanabonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}