{"id":2101,"date":"2015-08-08T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2015-08-08T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T20:25:09","slug":"divesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"Divesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> What a word: I need to begin to divest myself of too much stuff. (My book collections are strong examples of too much stuff.) George Carlin, the late comedian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac\">has a wonderful bit he does about \u201cstuff<\/a>.\u201d I\u2019m beginning to look at all my books that way\u2014not much, but it\u2019s a beginning. So did I suckle at their breast (the stuff\u2019s) or did they suckle at my breast, or were we suckle mates? It really seemed that intimate, somehow, but we\u2019ve just begun to grow apart. There\u2019s the slightest whiff \/ taste of \u201cturning\u201d \u2013 when a foodstuff has reached the end of it\u2019s being \u201cgood\u201d and begins\u2014just begins to begin\u2014to turn bad. Major 92% voice: I want this stuff, I need this stuff, it\u2019s all my stuff! MY stuff! Nyahahahaha! (Villainous cackle). Minor but just having reached a discernable level, 8%: What am I going to do with all this crap?!&#160; (Er, stuff&#8230; er&#8230;. precious treasures???)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a word: I need to begin to divest myself of too much stuff. (My book collections are strong examples of too much stuff.) George Carlin, the late comedian, has a wonderful bit he does about \u201cstuff.\u201d I\u2019m beginning to look at all my books that way\u2014not much, but it\u2019s a beginning. So did I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-follies","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}