{"id":8994,"date":"2025-10-03T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:00:21","slug":"steadfast-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2025\/10\/03\/steadfast-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Steadfast Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that if<a href=\"http:\/\/trancemissive.com\/words\/index.php\/2015\/10\/03\/hello-world\/\"> you practice something for ten years<\/a> you automatically become an expert in it. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe that is necessarily true, and yet &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I have practiced that long, as of roughly today, and I really am an expert at &#8230; this. I can feel it. <\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, and whatever it means. <\/p>\n<p>The question of whether my expertise is useful for anything is left as an exercise for the Reader. I&#8217;ve heard things which suggest that it is; thank you brother and thank you sister. I&#8217;ve also heard the sound of nothing, echoes in the void. Whenever you ask me a question that I&#8217;ve already answered fully here<\/p>\n<p>I know you&#8217;re not hearing me, and I think: <\/p>\n<p>you say you miss me, and I take it at face value, but the assertion is not actually supported by the evidence. <\/p>\n<p>I think about the man I was when I wrote that first post, and the girl I was with when I wrote it, and the place, and the event that motivated it. <\/p>\n<p>I feel the time and life and sentences flowing at me and through me and past me. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel any impulse to stop the flow. <\/p>\n<p>It might be that the flow tributaries into a larger one at some point. <\/p>\n<p>Or not. <\/p>\n<p>I have no announcements to make on the subject upon this occasion. But I mark it, note it anyway and I whisper to myself. <\/p>\n<p>Letting go, letting go, letting go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that if you practice something for ten years you automatically become an expert in it. I don&#8217;t believe that is necessarily true, and yet &#8230; I have practiced that long, as of roughly today, and I really am an expert at &#8230; this. I can feel it. For what it&#8217;s worth, and whatever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8995,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions\/8995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}