{"id":992,"date":"2005-11-20T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2005-11-20T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T01:06:00","slug":"night-and-some-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"night and some things"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. I’ve had Bono’s cover<\/a> of Richard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” (which every artist on the face of the planet seems to have covered by this point) going through my head all day. Not altogether unpleasant, just…there.<\/p>\n

2. I’ve also had a small but persistent headache all day. I had one Killian’s last night around 10:30. With food. I wasn’t buzzing at all. Can just one have that effect? I’m an alcohol newbie.<\/p>\n

3. Something mentioned during the apologetics conference last weekend that I’ve been mulling over in my mind all week: “Adulthood and maturity are attained with the loss of narcissism.” The speaker for that session, Michael Craven<\/a>, was giving a talk on sexual ethics in popular culture and their evolution over the course of the past century or so. He denounced the luminaries of the sexual revolution–Freud, Sanger, Kinsey, Hefner and Calderone–and showed how our over-sexualized culture is built upon a disintegrating view of sex, reducing it from the most intimate physical and emotional connection two people can share to mere copulation, a physical act motivated by self-centered desire for gratification and misplaced hedonism. He quoted at length from a writer on the subject (I wish I could remember to whom it’s attributed) and the quote above was mixed in. He used it to make the minor point that the sexual revolution has trapped many of us in a kind of state of perpetual adolescence, focused primarily on gratifying our own desires in at least that arena, if not others. It was a very poignant session.<\/p>\n

4. Turns out the Great Expectations<\/i> trailer is<\/i> on the DVD after all. I think they must have added it recently, since the last time I rented the film all I can remember is the other version. In any case, it was perfect and just as I remembered it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. I’ve had Bono’s cover of Richard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” (which every artist on the face of the planet seems to have covered by this point) going through my head all day. Not altogether unpleasant, just…there. 2. I’ve also had a small but persistent headache all day. I had one Killian’s last night around 10:30. With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}