{"id":66,"date":"2003-11-21T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-22T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2003-11-21T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-22T06:37:00","slug":"sometimes-its-better-to-live-in-my-own-fantasy-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, it&#8217;s better to live in my own fantasy world."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got some work that pays $50\/hr, but I&#8217;ve only done 1 1\/2 hours in the past three months so that isn&#8217;t going to pay the bills. But work is work and I decided to blow it by celebrating. I called my friend Il, who has been locked up at home playing some on-line Star Wars game for at least a month, and he wanted to see the ladies at the local strip club. I&#8217;ve now realized that while it was interesting to see those particular dancers naked, I really didn&#8217;t need to see them naked for more than a couple of minutes, max. I&#8217;m back to being frightened by that place again.<\/p>\n<p>Man, the cigarettes people smoke make a big difference. At My local McPub (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmenamins.com\">McMenamin&#8217;s Tavern<\/a>) one woman was smoking some cigarettes so foul that 15 feet away I was coughing. I thought it was the table behind me, but no one was smoking there. At least it kept me from drinking too much more of the little money I made today. I just have to remember to bill the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got some work that pays $50\/hr, but I&#8217;ve only done 1 1\/2 hours in the past three months so that isn&#8217;t going to pay the bills. But work is work and I decided to blow it by celebrating. I called my friend Il, who has been locked up at home playing some on-line Star Wars game for at least a month, and he wanted to see the ladies at the local strip club. I&#8217;ve now realized that while it was interesting to see those particular dancers naked, I really didn&#8217;t need to see them naked for more than a couple of minutes, max. I&#8217;m back to being frightened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sometimes, it&#8217;s better to live in my own fantasy world.<\/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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}