{"id":1631,"date":"2014-01-02T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2014-01-02T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T19:44:07","slug":"being-a-contemplateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Being a &ldquo;Contemplateur&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That term, \u201ccontemplat<em>eur<\/em>,\u201d is one I just made up, describing those who get a kick out of contemplating life, and maybe even writing about what bubbles through my brain-jelly. A <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/boulevardier\">boulevardier<\/a><\/em> is a French term for one who saunters up and down the avenues of Paris or some other big city. If they weren\u2019t so well dressed they might be called \u201cstreet people\u201d or \u201cvagrants\u201d (and thus eligible for arrest and imprisonment). (It\u2019s funny how class or status changes semantics or the emotional spin we give to words.)<\/p>\n<p>Aaaanyhoo, I\u2019ve recently been having fun contemplating a number of topics that I\u2019ll be talking about in February in a class I\u2019m giving for our lifelong learning program for folks our age: Kings of Africa; protozoa; tall tales in folk song and legend; mind-spectrums; and who really wrote Shakespeare\u2019s plays. If any of you have input on these topics, I welcome your correspondence. In early April I\u2019m flying out to Oakland to give some talks at the conference of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asgpp.org\/\">American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP<\/a>). In addition there is dancing and singing and other activities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That term, \u201ccontemplateur,\u201d is one I just made up, describing those who get a kick out of contemplating life, and maybe even writing about what bubbles through my brain-jelly. A boulevardier is a French term for one who saunters up and down the avenues of Paris or some other big city. If they weren\u2019t so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-whassup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}