{"id":90284,"date":"2012-06-06T16:17:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90284\/fast\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:17:57","slug":"fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90284\/fast\/","title":{"rendered":"that was fast or I guess there&#8217;s more to it than that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">well, the prosperity I&#8217;ve been enjoying (&#8220;prosperity&#8221; being a relative term) is over&#8230;but I still have car insurance&#8211;for a car that is not quite drive-able&#8230;and the phone bill (due 6\/22) is about $20&#8230;because I over paid the day before my 57th Birthday&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I used to think that Musical ability alone would make my services desirable&#8230;it&#8217;s possible that there are other things to consider&#8230;so I&#8217;m not handsome; I don&#8217;t like the spotlight anyway, keep it off me, I don&#8217;t mind&#8230;Am I that weird? or obnoxious? or&#8230;what? Today at least, it&#8217;s rather frustrating&#8230;SOME of my Musician &#8220;friends&#8221; are (IMO) maybe sorta kinda in a way slightly less talented than me&#8230;but they&#8217;re working&#8230;maybe I AM too picky, or maybe I&#8217;m jealous&#8230;it&#8217;s also possible I&#8217;m right&#8230;for instance, the duo I saw a couple of weeks ago was just OK IMO&#8230;my friends are not gonna give up their day jobs; and I ain&#8217;t talking about giving up mine, but ANY extra income would help&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I called the food stamp people and firmly but not angrily gave them a piece of my Mind&#8230;for whatever good it will do&#8211;but *I* feel a bit better&#8230;Life isn&#8217;t all THAT Good, but it ain&#8217;t that bad either&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>well, the prosperity I&#8217;ve been enjoying (&#8220;prosperity&#8221; being a relative term) is over&#8230;but I still have car insurance&#8211;for a car that is not quite drive-able&#8230;and the phone bill (due 6\/22) is about $20&#8230;because I over paid the day before my 57th Birthday&#8230; I used to think that Musical ability alone would make my services desirable&#8230;it&#8217;s [&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-90284","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\/90284","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=90284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}