{"id":19052,"date":"2017-08-05T19:38:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19052"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:38:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:38:40","slug":"lifestyle-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19052","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my last day in LA.  After a wonderful excursion to the always inspiring <a href=http:\/\/www.mjt.org\/>Museum of Jurassic Technology<\/a>, I am spending a last lovely afternoon relaxing in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, just hanging with my cousin.  <\/p>\n<p>It is hard not to make mental comparisons with where I will be tomorrow &#8212; back home in the heart of Manhattan.  The two locales are a study in contrasts.<\/p>\n<p>Here, all is peaceful and calm.  The sun is out every day, there is always a gentle breeze off the lake, and people walk with that slow unhurried gait of the truly relaxed.<\/p>\n<p>In Manhattan, all is staccato and noise.  People rush about, their very bodies seemingly compelled to be anywhere at all but where they happen to be at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Even the weather in NY is abrupt.  If there is a nice summer&#8217;s day, you can be sure it will be followed by a raging storm, or a dramatic temperature dip in either direction, as though Somebody up there is flipping a coin.<\/p>\n<p>I love both lifestyles, but I love one of them more.  My cousin prefers the other one.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it.  Fortunately, he&#8217;s always here in Silverlake, where we can hang out together on a perfect sunlit day and compare notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my last day in LA. After a wonderful excursion to the always inspiring Museum of Jurassic Technology, I am spending a last lovely afternoon relaxing in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, just hanging with my cousin. It is hard not to make mental comparisons with where I will be tomorrow &#8212; back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lifestyle contrast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19053,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions\/19053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}