{"id":438,"date":"2007-10-22T23:05:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T04:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=438"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:44:41","slug":"entry-132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Back to Regular Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wow. Four days and change spent in New York, and my first time in the city at that. I have no idea where to start yet. I\u2019ve spent most of today just readjusting to \u201cregular life\u201d, but honestly that has more to do with how I react to being outside my routine than with New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I think my first shot is going to be to say that I ended up feeling not nearly as overwhelmed as I thought I would. It\u2019s without a doubt a challenging city. It\u2019s <em>tuned&nbsp;<\/em>for the idea of people who know&nbsp;<em>exactly<\/em> what they\u2019re doing and <em>exactly<\/em> what they want\u2026 optimized for speed and efficiency of human interaction. For a first-time tourist, though, I did pretty well, and I want to go back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More later, but I figure that\u2019s a pretty good starting point and a pretty telling statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Four days and change spent in New York, and my first time in the city at that. I have no idea where to start yet. I\u2019ve spent most of today just readjusting to \u201cregular life\u201d, but honestly that has more to do with how I react to being outside my routine than with New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}