{"id":1138,"date":"2014-11-17T16:34:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2014-11-17T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:34:41","slug":"nojomo-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/17\/nojomo-17\/","title":{"rendered":"NoJoMo 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~o\/When I was seventeen\/it was a very good year\/o  Write about seventeen year-old you.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen year-old me had a lot more zits, and smoked a lot more tobacco.  He also drank a lot less alcohol.  My old OD entries start at around my twentieth birthday. , so even they wouldn&#8217;t be a lot of help.  By that time, I was working in radio, no longer with high school girlfriend, etc..  <\/p>\n<p>At seventeen, I started my first &#8220;serious&#8221; relationship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o\" target=\"new\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was trying to figure out what to do with my life, really.  Where did I want to go to school?  What did I want to study?  Do I believe in God?  <\/p>\n<p>Some answers came quicker than others.<\/p>\n<p>But I graduated high school.  I got accepted to most of the colleges I applied to.  I got threatened with disinheritance if I accepted the offer from Ole Miss.  <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t help form babby.  I didn&#8217;t get in trouble with the law, mainly because I did very few things tghat were against it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I was rather dull, if you8 ignore the zits.  And bad hair.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I do have to wonder what I might have done differently if I&#8217;d known I was going to get sick.  <\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t dwell on those.  Maybe there&#8217;s some things that I would have done differently, but, overall, I think I made the right choices for the situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~o\/When I was seventeen\/it was a very good year\/o Write about seventeen year-old you. Seventeen year-old me had a lot more zits, and smoked a lot more tobacco. He also drank a lot less alcohol. My old OD entries start at around my twentieth birthday. , so even they wouldn&#8217;t be a lot of help. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[27,36],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","category-uncategorized","tag-nojomo-2014","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}