{"id":1859,"date":"2008-05-21T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2008\/05\/21\/delayed-reaction\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T22:17:24","slug":"delayed-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2008\/05\/21\/delayed-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burningflipside.com\">Burning Flipside<\/a> officially opens tomorrow. A few key people are out there already. I&#8217;ll be heading out with the hoi polloi. I&#8217;ve been busy getting everything ready for the theme camp I&#8217;m leading, Circle of Fire, showing up for burn-night planning meetings, making lists, lengthening them, and lengthening them again.<\/p>\n<p>Gwen and I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2003\/05\/27\/burning-flipside-2003\/\">our first Flipside in 2003.<\/a> While some people at the time said that participating in Flipside was a life-changing event for them, Gwen and I reflected that we didn&#8217;t feel that way\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot because we&#8217;re jaded, but because we felt that however big a footprint Flipside left, we had done enough living that we could keep it in perspective as part of the continuum of our lives, not see it as a break in it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to depart for my fifth Flipside (<a href=\"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2004\/05\/20\/japan-trip-depature\/\">skipped 2004<\/a>), and here I am. Going to Flipside meetings, obsessing over my theme camp for weeks in advance of the event. Oh, it&#8217;s changed me. It just took longer for me to realize it.<\/p>\n<p>So now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I need to do some prep work for the bacon-avocado margaritas I&#8217;ll be serving at camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flipside has changed me more than I realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[94,184],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-burning-flipside","tag-flipside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}