{"id":1562,"date":"2010-12-07T02:23:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T06:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2011-01-12T19:32:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T23:32:13","slug":"monday-night-cloistered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/12\/07\/monday-night-cloistered\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; cloistered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from my tiny cell at the IBM hotel in Armonk NY. This is my favorite hotel in the world. The rooms are tiny.. 10 feet by 15.. I just measured. The rooms are functional, small and spare. one of the walls in each room is made of stone. Everything has a minimalist utilitarian design.. It says..&#8217;you come here to work.. not to play.. not to rest&#8217;. There;&#8217;s a scratchy bathrobe hanging on the bathroom door. You&#8217;re supposed to put that on while you work. it&#8217;s your hair shirt. your penance.. for not working harder. The whole place\u00a0 reminds my of a medieval monastery.. a hundred people.. all f the IBM employees, scribbling in their journals.. typing in their laptops.. slaving over whatever they need to present tomorrow.. like me..<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s purifying, really.. to work in this small cell.. knowing that 10 rooms on either side are doing the same thing. I feel like knocking on all their doors and asking them to come out for a midnight game of ping-pong.. ut then, I don&#8217;t like ping pong.. and I suspect they don&#8217;t either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all kindered here..\u00a0 .. it&#8217;s kind of sweet and sad &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>gnite all. nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from my tiny cell at the IBM hotel in Armonk NY. This is my favorite hotel in the world. The rooms are tiny.. 10 feet by 15.. I just measured. The rooms are functional, small and spare. one of the walls in each room is made of stone. Everything has a minimalist utilitarian design.. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/12\/07\/monday-night-cloistered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; cloistered<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-armonk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}