.23. Nobody liked you, but write a bit about you, when you were 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me at 23?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hmmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, things in the world were really upside down after September 11th.
I was still in radio, even though I\u2019d finished college, and should have been digging hard to get into law school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, after undergrad school, I was tired<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019d been going balls-to-the-wall for at least four years, living in a state of perpetual jetlag. I wanted to break free, but I was stuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was also broke. I paid more in Federal Income Tax for 2009 than I grossed in 2002 or 2003. Note that i said, \u201cFederal Income Tax.\u201d That\u2019s not \u201cpayroll taxes,\u201d Democrats. That\u2019s actual evil rich guy income tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was also lonely. Living in the middle of the night a lot of the time helped add to the isolation. I had no idea that I\u2019d meet someone who\u2019d make me happy, and I was really starting to get to the point of giving up on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The summer I turned 23, and the fall after, I think I spent a lot of my nights off fishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a lot of ways, though, it seems like a completely different life. I was a different person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" .23. Nobody liked you, but write a bit about you, when you were 23. Me at 23? Hmmm. Well, things in the world were really upside down after September 11th.I was still in radio, even though I\u2019d finished college, and should have been digging hard to get into law school. But, after undergrad school, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","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=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}