{"id":2288,"date":"2013-04-14T21:13:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/openletters\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2013-04-14T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:13:41","slug":"in-an-open-letter-to-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/in-an-open-letter-to-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"In an open letter to the universe,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So, what exactly is it that invites people to say such interesting things to me? For example, today one neighbor warned another about (against?) me. According to the sentinel neighbor, I am to be watched because I know TaeBo.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;So, what exactly is it that invites people to say such interesting things to me? For example, today one neighbor warned another about (against?) me. According to the sentinel neighbor, I am to be watched because I know TaeBo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[207,208,209,210],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-joke-outsider","tag-neighbors","tag-unsolicited-commentary","tag-what","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-AU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2419,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/in-an-open-letter-to-her-upstairs-neighbor\/","url_meta":{"origin":2288,"position":0},"title":"In an open letter to her upstairs neighbor,","author":"sherlonya","date":"April 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cPlease, please, please tell me that you\u2019re up there rapping without any music. Otherwise, the force of your words, the sheer volume of them and the lack of pausing for taking a breath is very disturbing\u2026.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In &quot;open letters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"open letters","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/category\/open-letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3046,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/in-an-open-letter-to-the-neighbor-nicknamed-keen-interest\/","url_meta":{"origin":2288,"position":1},"title":"In an open letter to the neighbor nicknamed \u201ckeen interest,\u201d","author":"sherlonya","date":"December 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cReally, there\u2019s nothing much of interest going on in here. Based on the amount of time you spend skulking about in the parking lot and peering in the window, I\u2019d think you\u2019d know that by now. 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