{"id":1919,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/an-open-letter-to-the-other-guy-in-this-revolving-door\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:55","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-other-guy-in-this-revolving-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/an-open-letter-to-the-other-guy-in-this-revolving-door\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to the Other Guy in this Revolving Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Walker King\">Walker King<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Jan. 3, 2016<\/h6>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1451864644257\" data-userid=\"17\" data-username=\"Walker King\" title=\"Inserted by Walker King - 01\/3\/2016 3:44pm\">Hey buddy, how are you doing? In a revolving door, I see. And not just any revolving door. This revolving door, with me. Welcome. <\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1451864644257\" data-userid=\"17\" data-username=\"Walker King\" title=\"Inserted by Walker King - 01\/3\/2016 3:44pm\">You\u2019ve probably already noticed a little about how I like to do things around these parts. I take it pretty slow. Whenever I\u2019m in a revolving door I make sure to take in my surroundings, really soak up the ambience. You might want to try it. After all, it\u2019s not like you\u2019re going anywhere without me.<\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1451864644257\" data-userid=\"17\" data-username=\"Walker King\" title=\"Inserted by Walker King - 01\/3\/2016 3:44pm\"><delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"17\" data-time=\"1451864657232\" data-userid=\"17\" data-username=\"Walker King\" title=\"Deleted by Walker King - 01\/3\/2016 3:44pm\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/delete>See that\u2019s one of the beautiful things about this revolving door: we\u2019re both in it together. You don\u2019t go anywhere unless I do, and I, likewise, am at your mercy. It\u2019s kind of like the world in that way. We can\u2019t go anywhere, as a species, unless we\u2019re all together, pulling in the same direction. Yin and Yang, y\u2019know. That\u2019s just one of the realizations I\u2019ve had here. Here in this revolving door.<\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1451864644257\" data-userid=\"17\" data-username=\"Walker King\" title=\"Inserted by Walker King - 01\/3\/2016 3:44pm\"><delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"19\" data-time=\"1451864660570\" data-userid=\"17\" data-username=\"Walker King\" title=\"Deleted by Walker King - 01\/3\/2016 3:44pm\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/delete>I think the reasons I have so many realizations (I like to call them \u201cepiphanies\u201d) in this revolving door is its calming, circular movement. I find it very womb-like. Sometimes I find myself drifting away, venturing across far off vistas in the hot-air balloon of my mind. Whoa, just lost myself there for a second! Oh yeah, I\u2019m in a revolving door, with you.<\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1451864644257\" data-userid=\"17\" data-username=\"Walker King\" title=\"Inserted by Walker King - 01\/3\/2016 3:44pm\"><delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"21\" data-time=\"1451864663865\" data-userid=\"17\" data-username=\"Walker King\" title=\"Deleted by Walker King - 01\/3\/2016 3:44pm\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/delete>Looks like we\u2019re almost out. Listen, I just want to say I\u2019ve really enjoyed my time in this door with you. I know we haven\u2019t spoken, in the common sense, but I feel like we\u2019ve <em>spoken<\/em>, you feel me? And there you go, off into the cold, cold night, while I convalesce into the library. One person into the darkness, another into the light. Whoa, just had another epiphany there. Fare thee well, fellow traveler.<\/insert><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walker King Jan. 3, 2016 Hey buddy, how are you doing? In a revolving door, I see. And not just any revolving door. This revolving door, with me. Welcome. You\u2019ve probably already noticed a little about how I like to do things around these parts. I take it pretty slow. Whenever I\u2019m in a revolving door I make sure to take in my surroundings, really soak up the ambience. You might want to try it. After all, it\u2019s not like you\u2019re going anywhere without me. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0See that\u2019s one of the beautiful things about this revolving door: we\u2019re both in it together. You don\u2019t go anywhere unless I do, and I, likewise, am at your mercy. It\u2019s kind of like the world in that way. We can\u2019t go anywhere, as a species, unless we\u2019re all together, pulling in the same direction. Yin and Yang, y\u2019know. That\u2019s just one of the realizations I\u2019ve had here. Here in this revolving door. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I think the reasons I have so many realizations (I like to call them \u201cepiphanies\u201d) in this revolving door is its calming, circular movement. I find it very womb-like. Sometimes I find myself drifting away, venturing across far off vistas in the hot-air balloon of my mind. Whoa, just lost myself there for a second! Oh yeah, I\u2019m in a revolving door, with you. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Looks like we\u2019re almost out. Listen, I just want to say I\u2019ve really enjoyed my time in this door with you. I know we haven\u2019t spoken, in the common sense, but I feel like we\u2019ve spoken, you feel me? And there you go, off into the cold, cold night, while I convalesce into the library. One person into the darkness, another into the light. Whoa, just had another epiphany there. Fare thee well, fellow traveler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}