{"id":3158,"date":"2005-02-21T19:54:35","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T03:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/21\/mature-me-naaahhh\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T17:20:15","slug":"mature-me-naaahhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/21\/mature-me-naaahhh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mature? Me? Naaahhh&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8904,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/5216885&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190121003533\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/5216885\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 15:41:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 06:19:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 06:19:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8905,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/sets\\\/131451&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050907070342\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com:80\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/sets\\\/131451\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 15:41:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 15:41:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The thing about seeing a flock of birds camped out on a publicly accessible dock&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/5216885\/\" title=\"Tokeland, WA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4\/5216885_54b86e8f25.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" alt=\"Tokeland, WA\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;is that one is faced with the completely immature and totally insurmountable desire to go running down the dock and into the flock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/02\/graphics\/birds-big.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/02\/graphics\/birds-big-tm.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"2MB QT .mov\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nobody ever said that just because I was getting older, I had to grow up. That&#8217;d make life <em>so<\/em> much less fun.<\/p>\n<p>More photos from the weekend are, as usual, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/131451\/\" title=\"Flickr: A weekend at the beach\">posted in a Flickr photoset<\/a>. :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253D12 Rounds%2526albumTerm=Pleasant Smell%2526songTerm=Pleasant Smell (Rethought by Trent Reznor, Keith Hillebrandt and Clint Mansell for the Nothing Collective)%26partnerId%3D30\">Pleasant Smell (Rethought by Trent Reznor, Keith Hillebrandt and Clint Mansell for the Nothing Collective)<\/a>\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253D12 Rounds%26partnerId%3D30\">12 Rounds<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253D12 Rounds%2526albumTerm=Pleasant Smell%26partnerId%3D30\">Pleasant Smell<\/a><\/em> (1998, 4:50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about seeing a flock of birds camped out on a publicly accessible dock is that one is faced with the completely immature and totally insurmountable desire to go running down the dock and into the flock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}