{"id":1857,"date":"2014-07-03T23:18:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T23:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2014-07-03T23:18:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T23:18:30","slug":"first-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2014\/07\/first-month\/","title":{"rendered":"First month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it\u2019s already been a month that I\u2019m here on Adams.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how to describe my feelings over this year, I just feel like a runner who\u2019s only been hearing his own breathing after doing a very long run in the sun. Some kind of zone where happiness or pain or anything else doesn\u2019t really matter because they don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in the zone!<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5581\/14314484298_622b73b5c8_z.jpg\" \/>     <br \/><em>Somewhere on the West Side, on my bike, smiling to oblivion because I like simple things like a nice-looking street.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spent the last two days working in Burbank, it was so great. I have so many cool moments with my Uber drivers. 95% of them are Armenian dudes and if you happen to be French, just let the word out that you know Armenian culture a bit through Charles Aznavour and then you\u2019re best buddy forever. Last night we were laughing too much, dude stepped on his brakes like crazy at some point. <\/p>\n<p>Just talking about the usual, work, divorce stuff, immigration, US\/EU comparison, kids, how I might not get a car or maybe\u2026 It is amazing to share or get a point of view, perspective from people that are like you but also totally not. <strike>Soccer<\/strike> Football is making me closer to so many immigrants too. This is where you see how truly universal that game is, except for Americans so that\u2019s kind of fun. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still high on how services here are awesome. The lady at Burbank\u2019s Starbucks know what I want after going there only once. I feel comfortable in no time everywhere and it feels great.<\/p>\n<p>Travelling between different neighborhoods, especially on my bike makes me love the part of the city I\u2019m living in and loving others too. For the first time in my life, I kind of get what\u2019s like to be like \u201cthis is my territory\u201d, I had never felt that way in France.<\/p>\n<p>My neighborhood is growing on me. Mostly Mexicans and black people, Blaxicans too. Everyone is super nice, it\u2019s calm. My roommates are still awesome, I\u2019m running this place a bit \u2013taking care of things- and it feels like I\u2019m <em>really<\/em> at home.<\/p>\n<p>And those sunsets on the roof, oh boy. Last Friday, when the sun was two minutes away from disappearing, when the yellow and orange are super sharp, I was up there. Temperature was absolutely perfect, perfect wind, just enough to wear a light jacket, I was sitting and chilling, reviewing music I\u2019m making in my headphones, watching the sunset while vintage cars \u201340s Oldsmobile and roadster- were parking across the street, skateboarders doing tricks on the parking lot half a block away, and fireworks were going off around.<\/p>\n<p>It was fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it\u2019s already been a month that I\u2019m here on Adams. I don\u2019t know how to describe my feelings over this year, I just feel like a runner who\u2019s only been hearing his own breathing after doing a very long run in the sun. Some kind of zone where happiness or pain or anything else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}