{"id":2598,"date":"2017-06-03T21:55:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T04:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2017-06-03T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T04:55:14","slug":"getting-inked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"Getting Inked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the grand opening of <a href=\"http:\/\/bainbridgebarn.org\/\">BARN<\/a> today and a woman first commented on my style (or would that be my <em>anti-<\/em>style) then asked me what tattoos I had. &#8220;None&#8221; was my answer. I&#8217;ve never managed to come up with a design I&#8217;d want to have permanently on my body, you see.<\/p>\n<p>To which she suggested the text of some quote that was meaningful to me. At that point, I knew immediately what the quote should be. It&#8217;s somewhat long, and would have to coil around my arm a bit, but I&#8217;ve seen tattooed texts that do that on other people and they are often very attractive. (I am not going to divulge the quotation ahead of time.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all <em>very<\/em> early in the process, so this is something that may well never happen. The process is so difficult to reverse that it must be considered irreversible. The regret from a little extra delaying and consideration pales in comparison to the regret for having it done at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the grand opening of BARN today and a woman first commented on my style (or would that be my anti-style) then asked me what tattoos I had. &#8220;None&#8221; was my answer. I&#8217;ve never managed to come up with a design I&#8217;d want to have permanently on my body, you see. To which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}