{"id":17021,"date":"2011-02-18T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/17021\/gratitude-not\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T06:50:14","slug":"gratitude-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/17021\/gratitude-not\/","title":{"rendered":"that&#8217;s gratitude&#8211;NOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">went to an open mic, feeling ambivalent about playing&#8230;eventually ended up playing Bass, that was fun&#8230;and I played rather well IMO&#8230;outside, in the parking lot a guy I knew asked me to lend him gas money&#8230;I have $18 in my pocket (and $17 in the bank) but I gave the guy three ones&#8230;he wouldn&#8217;t take it because &#8220;I need $5&#8230;&#8221; He saw that I had a $5 dollar bill and apparently wanted that&#8230;If I had had the courage I might have said &#8220;Why doncha piss in the tank and see what kind of mileage ya get.&#8221; Wow, humans is a crazy bunch, ain&#8217;t they? And the moon was full, as far as I could tell&#8230;I might be eating bread and butter samiches by Wednesday, and butter may actually be a luxury, but for NOW, I feel good&#8230;I think it&#8217;s gonna be a good weekend; I hope it is for you&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>went to an open mic, feeling ambivalent about playing&#8230;eventually ended up playing Bass, that was fun&#8230;and I played rather well IMO&#8230;outside, in the parking lot a guy I knew asked me to lend him gas money&#8230;I have $18 in my pocket (and $17 in the bank) but I gave the guy three ones&#8230;he wouldn&#8217;t take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021","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=17021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}