{"id":2208,"date":"2008-01-08T13:45:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2008-01-10T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T23:24:52","slug":"conquering-our-addictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"Conquering our addictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my mom today about the fact that my group of friends are all costuming for Mardi Gras as they always do. I was invited to join them for the first time and was looking forward to it. However, in a missive I exchanged with that certain someone, I decided it might not be a good idea to do it this year as distance is still required. So I told B maybe it&#8217;s best if I bow out this time around, and this turned out to be a wise decision as she relayed to me that perhaps it was best as she was told that someone wouldn&#8217;t participate if I was included. Drama for goodness sakes &#8211; never ending drama.\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>I told my mother about this today &#8211; she said she was feeling so &#8220;blah&#8221; &#8211; I said how can you feel blah when there is drama swirling around. So I told her all about the costuming gig and the me in, me out part and she said &#8220;tell her to pull the pacifier out of her mouth.&#8221;\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>Whatyagonnado?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my mom today about the fact that my group of friends are all costuming for Mardi Gras as they always do. I was invited to join them for the first time and was looking forward to it. However, in a missive I exchanged with that certain someone, I decided it might not be a good idea to do it this year as distance is still required. So I told B maybe&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-zC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}