{"id":1376,"date":"2018-11-24T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2018-11-24T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T18:00:02","slug":"twenty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/24\/twenty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, today is a free-write day.\u00a0 For whatever reason, my place-holder for this entry was, again, that thing I didn&#8217;t want to write about yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still very much driven the past few days on figuring out next steps.<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving was okay, though, in full consideration, we are so out-of-sync with what some family members think and\/or want.<\/p>\n<p>The only option is to not associate.\u00a0 With the freedom to associate, comes a freedom to choose to not.\u00a0 If I don&#8217;t meet your expectations, that&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p>If I ask you not to tell me how to live my life, I&#8217;m free to avoid you.\u00a0 So, instead, force me to live my life the way you think I ought, and use men with guns to prevent me from leaving.\u00a0 Venezuela, much?<\/p>\n<p>Got a little distracted reading a discussion about whether passenger rail should be taxpayer-funded.<\/p>\n<p>It is, largely because politicians want to show it off to constituents.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t participate in the &#8220;discussion,&#8221; because, well, what I think doesn&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 Because I don&#8217;t believe exactly as you do, I&#8217;m a Commie, or a Nazi.<\/p>\n<p>So I leave;\u00a0 I still can.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah kind of shared the same sentiment with me while we were discussing this.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do I envision?\u00a0 Go hole up somewhere in DC, and just be about each other.\u00a0 The plan to do that is coming together.\u00a0 It might take awhile to get there, but that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re headed.\u00a0 I think.\u00a0 Just me and <a href=\"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?author=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, today is a free-write day.\u00a0 For whatever reason, my place-holder for this entry was, again, that thing I didn&#8217;t want to write about yesterday. I&#8217;m still very much driven the past few days on figuring out next steps. Thanksgiving was okay, though, in full consideration, we are so out-of-sync with what some family members [&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-1376","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\/1376","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=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}