{"id":282,"date":"2004-09-10T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:19:19","slug":"im-losing-my-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m losing my touch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess my postings have been a bit maudlin lately. Someone read my blog and cried? The approved (or at least likely) responses are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sure are a lot of nonsense blogs on the intarweb. I thought they were all supposed to talk about candy and knitting.<\/li>\n<li>Mildred! What in Sam Hill is this nonsense? I clicked on the thing and this is supposed to be the minutes from the Cedar Rapids Snapdragon Appreciation Society meeting!<\/li>\n<li>man, i no u. i saw u &lt;doing something&gt; at &lt;some place&gt; + im gonna kick ur &lt;there&#8217;s only one body part that you hear about getting kicked, and it isn&#8217;t the shins in this case&gt;.<\/li>\n<li>WHERE ARE THE PICTURES? I&#8217;M LOOKING FOR PICTURES OF &lt;some odd sexual fetish like getting excited looking at chewed on pencils with half-used erasers on the end, preferably Dixon-Ticonderoga, and no, I&#8217;M NOT TALKING ABOUT MYSELF HERE.&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So to those of you praying for me, I thank you (it can&#8217;t hurt) but I must warn you that I&#8217;m a godless heathen (i.e., not part of whatever organized religion you&#8217;re participating in.) And if you think my life is bad, you should probably donate your money or time to a local charity. (Or just sign up to get me a <a href=\"http:\/\/go.gratisnetwork.com\/GI\/incentive\/action.go\/default.aspx?referer=8280640\">new iPod<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42 ) This is the world we live in and I&#8217;m sure it can be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess my postings have been a bit maudlin lately. Someone read my blog and cried? The approved (or at least likely) responses are: Sure are a lot of nonsense blogs on the intarweb. I thought they were all supposed to talk about candy and knitting. Mildred! What in Sam Hill is this nonsense? I clicked on the thing and this is supposed to be the minutes from the Cedar Rapids Snapdragon Appreciation Society meeting! man, i no u. i saw u &lt;doing something&gt; at &lt;some place&gt; + im gonna kick ur &lt;there&#8217;s only one body part that you hear about getting kicked, and it isn&#8217;t the shins in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m losing my touch.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}