{"id":1340,"date":"2018-11-08T17:29:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2018-11-08T17:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:29:21","slug":"eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/08\/eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kinda forcing myself to write some during my lunch break today.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been sofa king busy with work the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>I am tired, and need to force myself to step away from the humdrum.<\/p>\n<p>But on to the prompt.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is the most expensive thing you have ever bought for yourself?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, my Mustang.\u00a0 I really probably shouldn&#8217;t have bought it, but it was a lot of fun for awhile when I had it.<\/p>\n<p>Frivolities are kind of an afterthought these days.\u00a0 I say that just as I&#8217;d confirmed yet another MRI.<\/p>\n<p>Tube Cruise?<\/p>\n<p>Party!<\/p>\n<p>(The &#8220;tube cruise&#8221; bit is sarcastic.\u00a0 I do take Valium to stop twitching, so I could seem stoned AF&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that I could pluck off another prompt from one of the OD folks, but there&#8217;s nothing there.<\/p>\n<p>So, what else am I remotely excited about today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightyheaton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Heaton<\/a> coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Blaze<\/a> with a podcast.\u00a0 He had a couple of funny bits in the announcement this morning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oklahoma is Texas&#8217;s Canada<\/li>\n<li>Alex Jones reading NPR stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am sort of going to root for the Steelers tonight.\u00a0 Yes, it&#8217;s because I want a Panthers&#8217; loss to help the Saints.\u00a0 But what can you say.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering whether I should write tomorrow&#8217;s entry tonight because I&#8217;ll likely be out of it this time tomorrow.\u00a0 Hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinda forcing myself to write some during my lunch break today.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been sofa king busy with work the past few days. I am tired, and need to force myself to step away from the humdrum. But on to the prompt. What is the most expensive thing you have ever bought for yourself? Obviously, my [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}