{"id":9784,"date":"2009-12-10T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/10\/on-clubbing\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:06:00","slug":"on-clubbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/10\/on-clubbing\/","title":{"rendered":"on clubbing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in clubs before, but mostly to watch or play live music. I first caught Ronin when they played at Zouk. I&#8217;ve personally played at Arena, the old Butter Factory, DXO and a couple of other places here and there- but I always left before the dancing started. I was really self-conscious about the idea of dancing. (I had no idea then that most people just writhe about in time to the music.) I never really liked the places, anyway. It was really dark, noisy, smoky and crowded. As with cigarette smoke, if you&#8217;re not comfortable with it, you generally want to be away from it. I was never too comfortable with it, and never had anybody to show me the ropes. I was very intimidated by the whole idea of clubbing, and avoided it entirely. I convinced myself that I wasn&#8217;t missing out on much. I heard the horror stories from friends about how people got drunk, got into fights, all sorts of drama that really didn&#8217;t seem worth the trouble (and the money.)<\/p>\n<p>Last night was my first real clubbing experience. I went to Supper Club (supperclub?) with my schoolmates for our post-prom party. I went with an open mind. The music was great. I had previously never properly understood how DJ-ed music could be appreciated, but this time I got it, and enjoyed it. The alcohol was very expensive, but it tasted good and was well mixed. Dancing was a new experience for me. I sort of liked it and can see how it can be fun.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the juice isn&#8217;t worth the squeeze to me. I would rather spend would rather spend the time alone (reading books, working out, thinking) or with friends (playing music, games, sports, eating, watching DVDs&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in clubs before, but mostly to watch or play live music. I first caught Ronin when they played at Zouk. I&#8217;ve personally played at Arena, the old Butter Factory, DXO and a couple of other places here and there- but I always left before the dancing started. I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-2xO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}