{"id":9061,"date":"2024-11-28T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2024-11-29T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T18:11:03","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=9061","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Postmortem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The unexamined life is not worth living.&#8221; &#8212;Socrates<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/444226623_429364676716894_7473102381722646698_n-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9068\" style=\"width:204px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/444226623_429364676716894_7473102381722646698_n-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/444226623_429364676716894_7473102381722646698_n-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/444226623_429364676716894_7473102381722646698_n-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/444226623_429364676716894_7473102381722646698_n-2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">This is me going in a new and different direction, albeit down an old and familiar path. I don&#8217;t recall everything. I&#8217;m not gonna pretend to recall everything. I&#8217;m just gonna do the best my memory will allow at this time, albeit through a funhouse of mirrors altered by smudges of time and impermanence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/norain.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blind Melon; <em>&#8216;No Rain&#8217;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;If I looked inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity&#8221; &#8212;Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/startt-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9070\" style=\"width:280px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/startt-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/startt-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/startt-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/startt-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/startt-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The original text was published online in a series of blog posts. I&#8217;m guessing last touched around late 2015. The storyline is simple: Ride an old motorcycle around the circumference of the Lower 48, preferably without dying. The goal nonetheless being to get rid of the blues though, one damned way or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tuinb.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joan Osborne; <em>&#8216;Tangled Up In Blue&#8217;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"http:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/54A60F3E-C1C1-4203-BC82-7011261ADD97.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;You&#8217;re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn&#8217;t lose it.&#8221; &#8212;RobinWilliams<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/handbike-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9076\" style=\"width:209px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/handbike-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/handbike-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/handbike-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/handbike-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/handbike-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There&#8217;s therapeutic value, yes, but therapy, or alleged self-actualization arising from trauma or addiction, have no place here. I&#8217;m more about the objective investigation. Understanding by way of sifting through old words and pictures. Lean into the punch, for better or for worse. To not only piece together the puzzle pieces in my mind, but to also analyze them for purposes of understanding. To write my story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/longwind.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Beatles; <em>&#8216;The Long And Winding Road&#8217;<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.&#8221;                 &#8212;Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/mac.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9078\" style=\"width:203px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/mac.jpg 480w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/mac-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This really isn&#8217;t a starting over because I&#8217;m pulling from the last known text. However, this is a sort of starting over because I&#8217;m writing on top of that last known text. The three perspectives uniquely sharing the same page: the facts; the last known text interpreting the facts; and my current reconciliation of all of the foregoing. My hope is to learn something; or to write something worth reading; or to at least document that I most surely did things worth writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/startover.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wolf Jett; <em>&#8216;Start Over&#8217;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The unexamined life is not worth living.&#8221; &#8212;Socrates This is me going in a new and different direction, albeit down an old and familiar path. I don&#8217;t recall everything. I&#8217;m not gonna pretend to recall everything. I&#8217;m just gonna do the best my memory will allow at this time, albeit through a funhouse of mirrors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=9061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introduction to Postmortem<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[16,19,2533],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-aesthetic-ride","tag-neuroticattorney","tag-neuroticattorney-com","tag-the-aesthetic-ride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9154,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/9154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}