{"id":3100,"date":"2012-06-28T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:33:29","slug":"when-i-was-twenty-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"When I Was Twenty-Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I did for the age of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3102\">17 (on another webpage),<\/a>\u00a0I continued to doodle. At 29 I had entered my post-medical school specialty training in psychiatry and there were seminars, class lectures for the twelve of us (or thereabouts, as I dimly remember) at Stanford University Medical School&#8217;s Department of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back, the lectures were probably more meaningful than I could appreciate, but I&#8217;m bright and absorbed a lot. Indeed, I&#8217;ve always been bright enough to absorb even while multi-tasking, often the other task being the elaboration of a doodle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of a city that I lived in or ruled or just found pleasantly complex. (Now I shudder to think of urban living, but back then it was still the excitement of the big town!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/autobio\/citydoodle66.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I did for the age of\u00a017 (on another webpage),\u00a0I continued to doodle. At 29 I had entered my post-medical school specialty training in psychiatry and there were seminars, class lectures for the twelve of us (or thereabouts, as I dimly remember) at Stanford University Medical School&#8217;s Department of Psychiatry. Looking back, the lectures were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}