{"id":3794,"date":"2022-09-05T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2022-09-12T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:17:51","slug":"burning-man-waking-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2022\/09\/05\/burning-man-waking-dreams","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man Waking Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After three years away, I returned to Black Rock City with BRC3PO and 80,000 other dusty friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>As always with Burning Man, there are parts that I love and parts that I hate. The heat and wind were a good deal higher than they were for me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2019\/08\/31\/burning-man-metamorphosis\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3328\">last time<\/a>, and I felt their effects every day around noon. But in the cool mornings and bumping nights, the magic of the experience remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camping with the Post Office is a great opportunity to give back to the community and interact with the city in a different way. Wearing my new &#8220;Post Monster General&#8221; shirt, I was able to walk into camps and deliver mail anywhere under official auspices. My favorite interaction was bringing a package to someone at the Thunderdome who said as an aside &#8220;I wonder if it&#8217;s knives?&#8221; and then excitedly proclaimed to the whole camp &#8220;it&#8217;s knives!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My we all be so excited to receive knives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jlevinger\/albums\/72177720301835790' title='Burning Man 2022 by jlevinger, on Flickr'><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52334641716_027f8af1a3.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='Across the Beam'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>Photos from Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three years away, I returned to Black Rock City with BRC3PO and 80,000 other dusty friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-3794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-burning-man"],"geo":{"latitude":40.7861862,"longitude":-119.2027206,"description":"Gerlach, Nevada, 89412, US"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}