I was just solicited for a role that I\u2019ve dropped almost two years ago, and really moved away from in the decade or more before that. It\u2019s so easy to get on some-one’s list! That associates to phone solicitations, too. Although I\u2019m gradually disconnecting from professional involvements, they are not disconnecting from me.<\/p>\n
But it sort of underlines several things: First, how interconnected we are, and were. Being contacted by email for some involvement you no longer are interested in is like receiving a solicitation based on a \u201cfeeler\u201d towards some hobby or sport or charity you no longer support. Oh, perhaps you had a relatively soft spot for it, but no longer. We change—no news; but we\u2019re also reminded of that through solici-tors. We leave a trail behind us of memberships neglected. We\u2019re on someone\u2019s list! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was just solicited for a role that I\u2019ve dropped almost two years ago, and really moved away from in the decade or more before that. It\u2019s so easy to get on some-one’s list! That associates to phone solicitations, too. Although I\u2019m gradually disconnecting from professional involvements, they are not disconnecting from me. But it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-events","category-whassup","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986"}],"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=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}