{"id":2165,"date":"2020-04-17T20:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2020-04-18T16:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T16:54:17","slug":"on-missing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"On Missing People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7487.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7487.jpg 596w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7487-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I miss people.&nbsp; As a self-declared introvert, I\u2019m surprised, pleasantly &#8211; I miss people badly.&nbsp; The list of what I miss is endless.&nbsp; I miss their clean smells, their dirty smells, their mop of hair, their prickly beards. The irony of their eyebrows.&nbsp; Their slack lids, their twitch.&nbsp; Their sniffles and complaints about their sniffles.&nbsp; The bass timbre of their voices. The cloud of their breath, their own personal barometer.&nbsp; I miss their living quality.&nbsp; (And that\u2019s just the face.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I miss things of the senses.\u00a0 My senses gather confirmation of all kinds regarding external existence.\u00a0 They are the yes to my no or yes to my yes.\u00a0 They are charged fields that activate me, as plants churn sun with chlorophyll for energy.\u00a0 People and their vibe &#8211; they are the other to my I.\u00a0 The talk to my talk back. \u00a0Without the other, how do I know I exist? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a skeptic of the virtual.&nbsp; The compilation of pixels will never convince me, viscerally, of life. And yet, do I have a choice?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss people.&nbsp; As a self-declared introvert, I\u2019m surprised, pleasantly &#8211; I miss people badly.&nbsp; The list of what I miss is endless.&nbsp; I miss their clean smells, their dirty smells, their mop of hair, their prickly beards. The irony &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[957,970,969,966,967,965,968],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-extrovert","tag-introvert","tag-isolation","tag-lockdown","tag-quarantine","tag-self-isolation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-yV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}