{"id":2142,"date":"2015-10-25T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2015-10-25T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T21:54:47","slug":"hollow-weenies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2142","title":{"rendered":"Hollow Weenies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/holloweenies2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"holloweenies2\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"holloweenies2\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/holloweenies2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"764\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hollow-weenie -eeeeee is coming! Let\u2019s all pretend to be scared: Eeee! Now let\u2019s all pretend to be scary: Booooo! Unless you\u2019re suffering from PTSD, both are sort-of fun, lifting us out of our humdrum civilized life, jolting us back with a mild energizing thrill into a simulacrum of what it might have been like for our very primitive very very distant ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>A certain amount of dust, parasites, and stimulation to our immune system keeps it toned up. Say, 5%. Too much is overwhelming, sure, but there\u2019s such a thing as too little, which makes it flabby and susceptible to autoimmune disorders. It\u2019s as if the \u201coutside world\u201d doesn\u2019t do it, you\u2019ll do it to yourself. What if the same is true of the mind? Too much civilization, too little fear\u2014only just a little is needed\u2014and you get flabby. So you dabble in the scary, in roller coasters, in risk-taking, adventure. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe the elders like me don\u2019t need to do this so much. Peace and quiet. Of course I recognize and maybe get enough of a thrill by recognizing that I\u2019m not a lot less mortal than many others. Meaning that I have 100% chance of dying, it\u2019s just a matter of when. Pretty scary, huh? Wait, what? I\u2019m gonna DIE? Aaarrrrrrgggggghhhh! Hollow-Weenie Greetinks! Nyah ha ha ha haaaa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollow-weenie -eeeeee is coming! Let\u2019s all pretend to be scared: Eeee! Now let\u2019s all pretend to be scary: Booooo! Unless you\u2019re suffering from PTSD, both are sort-of fun, lifting us out of our humdrum civilized life, jolting us back with a mild energizing thrill into a simulacrum of what it might have been like for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-world-of-almost-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}