{"id":3440,"date":"2010-02-08T21:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T05:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2010-02-08T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T06:58:47","slug":"stood-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3440","title":{"rendered":"Stood up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to get one of my last Carlyle burgers tonight but I got stood up. It wasn&#8217;t a big deal, but I&#8217;m still counting it. I thought about going by myself, weighing the the hedonistic benefits of a delicious cheeseburger with the health benefits of a nice leafy salad, and I picked the salad. I&#8217;m not really sure why, because delayed gratification has to have some sort of gratification at the end. Being fat, dumb, and happy requires a certain commitment to the calories that I&#8217;m just not getting lately. Oh, well, I had to scrub the toilet anyway. Oh, and do some work. It probably says something when I&#8217;d rather scrub the toilet than do work.<\/p>\n<p>My friend described himself as one hoodie away from being the Unabomber today, but he&#8217;s married and has twin babies so I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;s not able to hide himself in his own dungeon. I&#8217;m pretty certain the Unabomber stayed away from technology so I&#8217;m in no danger of that either, but I think if I just got some anime I could be an otaku. Sounds like a lot of work and kind of expensive, what with the trips to the maid bars and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to get one of my last Carlyle burgers tonight but I got stood up. It wasn&#8217;t a big deal, but I&#8217;m still counting it. I thought about going by myself, weighing the the hedonistic benefits of a delicious cheeseburger with the health benefits of a nice leafy salad, and I picked the salad. I&#8217;m not really sure why, because delayed gratification has to have some sort of gratification at the end. Being fat, dumb, and happy requires a certain commitment to the calories that I&#8217;m just not getting lately. Oh, well, I had to scrub the toilet anyway. Oh, and do some work. It probably says something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stood up.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","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\/3440","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}