{"id":1166,"date":"2010-11-18T13:32:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2010-11-18T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T18:32:06","slug":"laughing-at-life-during-the-psych-eval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2010\/11\/laughing-at-life-during-the-psych-eval\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing at Life During the Psych Eval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a small, quiet testing facility: something like a hospital room.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the subject of a\u00a0psychiatric\u00a0evaluation. There is a young woman doctor administering the tests.<\/p>\n<p>I press buttons on some radio. I listen to some jazz music. There is a button labeled &#8220;Jazz&#8221;. When I press it, it\u00a0accentuates the bass in a pleasing way.\u00a0Is it the button that does this, or is it just the song? No, it&#8217;s the button.<\/p>\n<p>Disco music now plays.<\/p>\n<p>Confidently, I approach her and begin to dance with her. It is alright?\u00a0Yes, we are laughing at life.<\/p>\n<p>She is so light and soft. I spin her round and round in my arms.\u00a0She is so happy; we are carefree. We know, at one and the same time, how precious life is and how stifling circumstances make things, and we are putting that aside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a small, quiet testing facility: something like a hospital room. I&#8217;m the subject of a\u00a0psychiatric\u00a0evaluation. There is a young woman doctor administering the tests. I press buttons on some radio. I listen to some jazz music. There is a button labeled &#8220;Jazz&#8221;. When I press it, it\u00a0accentuates the bass in a pleasing way.\u00a0Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}