{"id":1386,"date":"2012-12-05T18:35:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2012-12-05T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:37:46","slug":"fol-da-rol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/fol-da-rol\/","title":{"rendered":"Fol Da Rol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/editor_tupp\/8244139311\/\" title=\"The furnishings of the lumber room of my head, aged 12 by Editor_Tupp, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8069\/8244139311_1b305b02a0_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"The furnishings of the lumber room of my head, aged 12\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do not use my writing here as confessional. I do not demand you buy things. I do not write because I insist you agree with my viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>I write here because I can and sometimes because I must. I write here because it is the place where I do not write about the other things which fill a day. I value this, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/folderol\" title=\"Definition of Folderol\" target=\"_blank\">Fol-De-Rol<\/a>, because everyone needs a place for their mental hinterland to live. Before we wrote online, we wrote in diaries or journals. Or we went to the pub, or called around to a pal, or spent hours on the phone to a schoolfriend. In all those places we were being ourselves. <\/p>\n<p>We were ourselves then. I am myself here. Does that mean we aren\u2019t ourselves the rest of the time? No. I am myself when I am at my office. I am myself when playing with my children. But I am also other things, I am an employee, a lawyer or a dad. I am someone else\u2019s something else. <\/p>\n<p>Writing here I am nobody\u2019s anything.<br \/>\nI am just what I feel like, just as I am writing it. <\/p>\n<p>We all need a Fol-De-Rol. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I do not use my writing here as confessional. I do not demand you buy things. I do not write because I insist you agree with my viewpoints. I write here because I can and sometimes because I must. I write here because it is the place where I do not write about the other things which fill a day. I value this, my Fol-De-Rol, because everyone needs a place for their mental hinterland to live. Before we wrote online, we wrote in diaries or journals. Or we went to the pub, or called around to a pal, or spent hours on the phone to a schoolfriend. In all those places we were being ourselves. We were ourselves then. I am myself here. Does that mean we aren\u2019t ourselves the rest of the time? No. I am myself when I am at my office. I am myself when playing with my children. But I am also other things, I am an employee, a lawyer or a dad. I am someone else\u2019s something else. Writing here I am nobody\u2019s anything. I am just what I feel like, just as I am writing it. We all need a Fol-De-Rol.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}