{"id":3889,"date":"2013-01-02T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T02:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2013-03-16T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:35:17","slug":"i-am-in-general-not-prophetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"i am, in general, not prophetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am, in general, not prophetic. <\/p>\n<p>However, I was talking with someone today, exchanging \"what we did over the holidays\" stories, and he said that on New Year's Eve he'd been to a \"floating dance party.\"<\/p>\n<p>After he had clarified that he meant \"floating\" as in \"moving from place to place\" (like a floating poker game), rather than \"on a body of water,\" he explained it like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A bunch of people decided to participate, so they all downloaded the same music playlist to their iPods or whatever,<\/li>\n<li>on New Year's Eve they all gathered at a prearranged street corner,<\/li>\n<li>they all put on their headphones,<\/li>\n<li>the person coordinating it counted  down, so they all started their music at the exact same moment,<\/li>\n<li>then they all starfted dancing, spreading out across the East Village for the next three hours, dancing to music they they could all hear, but nobody else could.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As I say, I'm not usually prophetic, but this did sound <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u-town.com\/text\/utown\/dance.htm#dance01\" target=\"_blank\">rather familiar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3889&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3889&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, in general, not prophetic. However, I was talking with someone today, exchanging &#8220;what we did over the holidays&#8221; stories, and he said that on New Year&#8217;s Eve he&#8217;d been to a &#8220;floating dance party.&#8221; After he had clarified that he meant &#8220;floating&#8221; as in &#8220;moving from place to place&#8221; (like a floating poker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}