{"id":769,"date":"2010-11-27T07:03:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2010-11-29T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T01:20:13","slug":"the-crying-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Peaches, It&#8217;s Not All About You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a story about the Landmark Forum in tomorrow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/28\/fashion\/28Landmark.html?_r=1&amp;ref=fashion\">New York Times<\/a>. A successor to Est, the self-help seminar famous in the 70&#8217;s for not allowing its participants to use the bathroom during class, the Forum (during which participants <em>are <\/em>allowed to use the bathroom) is a weekend-long human development class which helps people resolve problems or gaps in their lives. It was one of the more emotionally exhausting weekends of my life; lots and lots of crying in the room&#8211;it was like a rain forest in there.<\/p>\n<p>Though jargon-riddled and fairly tireless in its attempts at recruitment, the program is effective for some people&#8211;particularly those whose problems (eg, coming out of the closet, making amends) stem from someone&#8217;s failure to pick up the phone.\u00a0As with all forms of self-help, though, there&#8217;s a good deal of wariness and antipathy expressed toward Landmark by health professionals and the media; I would suggest that some of this is elitist, coming as it sometimes does from folks who can afford a weekly appointment with a shrink.<\/p>\n<p>Off to the bathroom for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a story about the Landmark Forum in tomorrow&#8217;s New York Times. A successor to Est, the self-help seminar famous in the 70&#8217;s for not allowing its participants to use the bathroom during class, the Forum (during which participants are allowed to use the bathroom) is a weekend-long human development class which helps people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}