{"id":177,"date":"2007-10-02T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=177"},"modified":"2007-10-02T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T06:20:00","slug":"life-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2007\/10\/life-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"life in los angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy few months here in Los Angeles so far.&nbsp; I think that this has in some way postponed a lot of the homesickness I fully expected to feel.&nbsp; There has definitely been moments, but those have been quickly put on hold to concentrate on work.&nbsp; Over the last week, however, it has really begun to sink in that I really live here, and how far away many of my friends are.&nbsp; Living in LA without a car is challenging and its been difficult to find ways to interact with people outside of the USC community.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the first few months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazing food discoveries (Like the biggest burrito that I&#8217;ve ever seen at a restaurant&#8230;and it not being the biggest in LA)<\/li>\n<li>Diversity (It&#8217;s kinda cool to hear people talk in languages other than English&#8230;even though I don&#8217;t understand it)<\/li>\n<li>The Music Calendar (there is so much going on&#8230;its really just a matter of time and money&#8230;not whether something is actually happening)<\/li>\n<li>Running into old friends at a conference for work in San Francisco that I wasn&#8217;t sure I wanted to go to initially&#8230;but so glad I went to in the end (and seeing a friend from Eugene while I was there as well).<\/li>\n<li>Sleeping under the stars on the beach at our Fall Retreat in Oceanside, CA (and the fairly warm ocean water)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lowlights of the first few months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My diet has been horrible&#8230;way to much fast food and eating out in general (and not finding a good grocery store nearby with organic\/local food)<\/li>\n<li>Adjusting to much longer hours and different sleep schedules<\/li>\n<li>Having a hard time finding a &#8220;me&#8221; outside of USC<\/li>\n<li>The Ducks loosing on the second to last play of the game to Cal while surrounded by USC fans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy few months here in Los Angeles so far.&nbsp; I think that this has in some way postponed a lot of the homesickness I fully expected to feel.&nbsp; There has definitely been moments, but those have been quickly put on hold to concentrate on work.&nbsp; Over the last week, however, it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2007\/10\/life-in-los-angeles\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[527,532,81,149],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-or-something-like-it","tag-discernment","tag-life-or-something-like-it","tag-los-angeles","tag-vocation","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}