{"id":209,"date":"2014-09-13T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2014-09-13T19:43:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T19:43:36","slug":"burning-man-decompression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man Decompression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BM-2014-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BM-2014-3.jpg\" alt=\"BM 2014-3\" width=\"1497\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BM-2014-3.jpg 1497w, http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BM-2014-3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BM-2014-3-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1497px) 100vw, 1497px\" \/><\/a>Well my friends as you have already guessed I have just returned from the Burning Man Festival in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>It is slightly disconnected from the real world, thankfully, and a period of decompression is required to provide a controlled, if painful, process of re-entry into normal like.<\/p>\n<p>Mine consists of five levels<\/p>\n<p>Euphoria \u2013 when I smiled remembering the people I met and things I did and did not do. Not having a shower at least once a day is kind of liberating.<\/p>\n<p>Despair \u2013 Burning Man is over.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointment \u2013 trying to find any good photographs of the event amongst the blurred, under exposed and slanted images (see last post) taken on the Playa.<\/p>\n<p>Frustration \u2013 trying to explain Burning Man to my friends.<\/p>\n<p>Surrender \u2013 the final step in the decompression process.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided not to surrender but keep the ten principles alive throughout the year by taking up a new activity. The UVS (unique video selfie) is the new upgraded version of the genre and producing them should keep the mind focused and prepared for the next Burning Man.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you all to join in this activity and maintain an undercurrent of radical self-expression in the face of normality. Hazardous and bedroom based productions are not encouraged!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-209-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Unique-Video-Selfie-1.m4v?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Unique-Video-Selfie-1.m4v\">http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Unique-Video-Selfie-1.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well my friends as you have already guessed I have just returned from the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. It is slightly disconnected from the real world, thankfully, and a period of decompression is required to provide a controlled, if painful, process of re-entry into normal like. Mine consists of five levels Euphoria \u2013 when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}