{"id":11875,"date":"2011-01-20T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11875\/bass-ackwards-2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:32:19","slug":"bass-ackwards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11875\/bass-ackwards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"bass ackwards again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: small\">a discussion about phobias and other psychological conditions has lead me to these ideas&#8230;SAD&#8211;even though I&#8217;ve said I live with it, I now think it doesn&#8217;t exist&#8230;I just don&#8217;t like Winter&#8230;don&#8217;t try to convince me I need treatment and\/or meds just because I don&#8217;t like Winter&#8230;I don&#8217;t like Summer all that much either, but I&#8217;ve realized it&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t like extremes in temperature, nothing more to it than that IMO&#8230;PHOBIAS&#8211;Flying, for instance&#8230;*I* need treatment and\/or meds because *I* don&#8217;t wanna travel in a machine that flies way up in the air, held aloft by two engines and wings full of explosive jet fuel? Heights. Climb to the top of a 6 foot ladder, allow yerself to\u00a0FALL off of it&#8230;You might land on yer back, or a shoulder or yer head&#8230;Imagine being in (on?) the Observation Deck of the Sears Tower in Chicago when an earthquake occurs, or a plane hits it&#8230;But you say *I* need treatment\/meds to fight this phobia?There are degrees of fear, so I&#8217;m not at all suggesting anyone just stay home for the rest of their life&#8230;and of course when we get in our cars and hit the road it&#8217;s THE OTHER GUY we gotta watch out for&#8230;If you have a fear of flying (seems logical to me) or a fear of chocolate (NOT logical to me), doesn&#8217;t it come from YOUR MIND? and I don&#8217;t necesarily mean a &#8220;chemical imbalance&#8221; either&#8230;If you have a fear of [anything] that may not make sense to me or anyone else&#8230;But it makes sense to YOU&#8230;YOU make the choices&#8211;ignore it, defeat it, live with it&#8230;or let it destroy you&#8230;really, am I wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a discussion about phobias and other psychological conditions has lead me to these ideas&#8230;SAD&#8211;even though I&#8217;ve said I live with it, I now think it doesn&#8217;t exist&#8230;I just don&#8217;t like Winter&#8230;don&#8217;t try to convince me I need treatment and\/or meds just because I don&#8217;t like Winter&#8230;I don&#8217;t like Summer all that much either, but I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}