{"id":9227,"date":"2009-04-05T05:23:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T09:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9227"},"modified":"2010-07-18T12:46:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T16:46:24","slug":"what-its-like-when-your-good-friends-read-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9227","title":{"rendered":"What it\u2019s like when your good friends read your blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Allison sent me an email recently about one of my posts.  She knows the backstory, of course, as friends do &#8211; she knows all of the stuff surrounding the little I reveal here &#8211; and so she needed to know more.  Part of her email read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>i looked for some clue as to your emotional state in the placement of commas.  i was convinced that there was some code embedded in your words&#8230;like those satanic messages black sabbath and ozzy ozbourne burned into their LPs which could only be heard if you spun the record backwards. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am still laughing out loud.  I called her and we were guffawing on the phone about this.<\/p>\n<p>Allison said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you remember that, with Ozzy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course I do!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Allison said, &#8220;I remember feeling <i>afraid<\/i> to even TRY it, when I was a kid, because I really felt like I would be inviting the Devil into my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am shaking with laughter as I type this.  The fact that she would read my blog in that manner was so funny and the whole capper was Allison saying, &#8220;Yeah, I read that post and thought &#8211; Maybe if I hold the computer up to a mirror and read it that way I&#8217;ll see what she&#8217;s really saying?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to MOMA today to see some photography.  I&#8217;m excited.  Haven&#8217;t been there in a while.  And I can fill her in.  I can give her the embedded satanic messages in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Allison sent me an email recently about one of my posts. She knows the backstory, of course, as friends do &#8211; she knows all of the stuff surrounding the little I reveal here &#8211; and so she needed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22736,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions\/22736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}