{"id":5420,"date":"2013-07-29T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2013-07-29T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T00:14:12","slug":"a-semiotic-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5420","title":{"rendered":"A semiotic breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I was back in my office,<\/strong> and it seemed strange to me, as if something essential about it had changed. Which was in fact the case. The walls were pink when I left, and now they’re blue.<\/p>\n

I said it seemed strange; I didn\u2019t say it was a surprise. Getting it painted while I was out was the plan from the beginning. Our school\u2019s custodial staff did a bang-up job with it.<\/p>\n

When I first took on the office of librarian and book store manager, almost the first thing they said was \u201cWe plan to get it repainted.\u201d The lady who had been the first to use the office, when the new building was built and the library moved up from its basement quarters in the seminary, thought a darkish pink color would be a good choice. (I\u2019m sure she called it something more technical, like Dusky Pink or Cream of Liver.) Nobody else I\u2019ve spoken to since has concurred in that opinion.<\/p>\n

But somehow the years passed without a change. I didn\u2019t really chafe living with the color \u2013 interior decoration isn\u2019t generally something that engages me \u2013 but when anybody brought it up I had to admit that I\u2019d prefer something else. Still, repainting meant carrying all my junk out and then carrying it back in, which sounded like a lot of work.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s done now. Now I\u2019ve got a light blue office. I\u2019ll have to think of a technical name for the color \u2013 Hypothermic Lips, maybe.
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Today I was back in my office, and it seemed strange to me, as if something essential about it had changed. Which was in fact the case. The walls were pink when I left, and now they’re blue. I said it seemed strange; I didn\u2019t say it was a surprise. Getting it painted while I … Continue reading A semiotic breakthrough<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}