{"id":387,"date":"2007-06-22T23:22:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T03:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2011-07-17T03:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T07:00:43","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"And So It Begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until now, this whole idea of moving 800 miles from Chicago to NYC had been just an abstraction. But today I finally began packing, and what had been a tastefully-furnished Lincoln Park apartment a couple hours ago is now beginning to resemble the closing scene of <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388\" title=\"Raiders_Of_The_Lost_Ark_Government_Warehouse2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Raiders_Of_The_Lost_Ark_Government_Warehouse2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Raiders_Of_The_Lost_Ark_Government_Warehouse2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Raiders_Of_The_Lost_Ark_Government_Warehouse2-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With that, the reality of this major life change is finally sinking in; until today there had been a sense that I could still change my mind about the whole thing. Now, it feels like there&#8217;s no turning back. I really hope I&#8217;m not doing something incredibly stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my stuff isn&#8217;t coming to NYC with me just yet. It will be put into storage here in Chicago over the next few days, and then next weekend I&#8217;ll load my Jeep with only the bare essentials I&#8217;ll need while at Columbia for the summer (computer, clothing, studio supplies, cat, etc.) and hit the road. I have a secure parking spot for the Jeep reserved near a PATH station in Newark, and I&#8217;ll take my chances bringing my cat into the dorm at Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Once I get permanent housing in NYC &#8212; which will require me getting a job and a few paychecks under my belt &#8212; I&#8217;ll need to fly back to Chicago, load my shit into a Penske truck, and make yet another I-80 pilgrimage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until now, this whole idea of moving 800 miles from Chicago to NYC had been just an abstraction. But today I finally began packing, and what had been a tastefully-furnished Lincoln Park apartment a couple hours ago is now beginning to resemble the closing scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark: &nbsp; With that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,102],"tags":[139,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}