{"id":4127,"date":"2007-11-19T22:27:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T06:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/19\/true-enough\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:02:56","slug":"true-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/19\/true-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"True Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5751,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ptk.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302202722\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.ptk.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 14:00:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 08:48:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 13:38:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 10:40:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 10:40:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>My coworker Rachel watched as our poster printer produced three posters, all wintertime shots taken in the late 1800&#8217;s or early 1900&#8217;s. &#8220;Y&#8217;know,&#8221; she said, &#8220;all the people in those shots are probably dead. That&#8217;s kind of depressing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked over from the lab. &#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t know. I think it&#8217;d be a lot <em>more<\/em> depressing if they were alive today. Trapped in those little boxes, clawing at the top, screaming to get out&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She paused for a moment, then shook her head. &#8220;You&#8217;re just <em>so<\/em> weird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Just a moment ago, I was looking over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptk.org\/\" title=\"Phi Theta Kappa\">Phi Theta Kappa<\/a> website after getting an invitation to join. As I perused the eligibility requirements, one line caught my eye. &#8220;Ooh &#8212; I must &#8216;adhere to the moral standards of the society.&#8217; I wonder what those are?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t worry about it,&#8221; called Prairie from the other room. &#8220;I&#8217;m pretty sure you don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My coworker Rachel watched as our poster printer produced three posters, all wintertime shots taken in the late 1800&#8217;s or early 1900&#8217;s. &#8216;Y&#8217;know,&#8217; she said, &#8216;all the people in those shots are probably dead. That&#8217;s kind of depressing.&#8217;<\/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":[6],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","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=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}