{"id":2199,"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\/eyes-contact\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:59:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:59:57","slug":"eyes-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/eyes-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Evan Bernstein\">Evan Bernstein<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Feb. 22, 2014<\/h6>\n<p>Hark, dear reader, do you know the tale? \u2019Twas a bright late-winter morn when the sun\u2019s light and the day\u2019s break arose o\u2019er the mountain\u2019s top and the lake\u2019s shore. Know you not the story of two young academics, strolling opposite one another, converging on a central point betwixt them? Glorious be it though not-so-smooth encounter thus, an oh-too-large hundred paces separating still the unsuspecting  peers doth made the eyes contact but such-to-soon a moment. <\/p>\n<p>The time\u2019s frame being simply too large and the side\u2019s walk being simply too narrow, the students gazed in the likewise manner, each his other\u2019s subject. Fie upon\u2019t so happened that yester\u2019s day, for it shall live infamously onward in the news\u2019s paper for grand\u2019s children yet to be. Doubt not the validity of the story told hence\u2019s forth, as there more details emerge here\u2019s after. Immediately following their ghastly encounter the afore\u2019s mentioned players directed their looks downward, so as not to incur the social penalty imposed on those who let their eyes\u2019 contact so linger. <\/p>\n<p>Quick though their moment was, fleeting so it came to be, \u2019twas a moment worth a life\u2019s time, more valuable than gold, more abundant than a chest&#8217;s treasure. Dear reader, I implore you, do not take my meaning to be that of cautionary import, no! Read my musings as a tale of love, life, and happiness, and sadness, and loss, and joy, and fear, and society, and everything, and nothing. Lo, so it has become the end, and it is time for me to say good\u2019s bye. Fare\u2019s well, dear reader, and all\u2019s the best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Evan Bernstein Feb. 22, 2014 Hark, dear reader, do you know the tale? \u2019Twas a bright late-winter morn when the sun\u2019s light and the day\u2019s break arose o\u2019er the mountain\u2019s top and the lake\u2019s shore. Know you not the story of two young academics, strolling opposite one another, converging on a central point betwixt them? Glorious be it though not-so-smooth encounter thus, an oh-too-large hundred paces separating still the unsuspecting peers doth made the eyes contact but such-to-soon a moment. The time\u2019s frame being simply too large and the side\u2019s walk being simply too narrow, the students gazed in the likewise manner, each his other\u2019s subject. Fie upon\u2019t so happened that yester\u2019s day, for it shall live infamously onward in the news\u2019s paper for grand\u2019s children yet to be. Doubt not the validity of the story told hence\u2019s forth, as there more details emerge here\u2019s after. Immediately following their ghastly encounter the afore\u2019s mentioned players directed their looks downward, so as not to incur the social penalty imposed on those who let their eyes\u2019 contact so linger. Quick though their moment was, fleeting so it came to be, \u2019twas a moment worth a life\u2019s time, more valuable than gold, more abundant than a chest&#8217;s treasure. Dear reader, I implore you, do not take my meaning to be that of cautionary import, no! Read my musings as a tale of love, life, and happiness, and sadness, and loss, and joy, and fear, and society, and everything, and nothing. Lo, so it has become the end, and it is time for me to say good\u2019s bye. Fare\u2019s well, dear reader, and all\u2019s the best!<\/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\/2199"}],"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=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}