{"id":72,"date":"2005-03-05T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T22:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=72"},"modified":"2013-08-11T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T05:33:00","slug":"the-downward-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/03\/05\/the-downward-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"The downward spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I had my first swig of an alcoholic drink.  My coworkers and I all went to a bar to celebrate someone&#8217;s birthday.  One of them ordered some mango drink, couldn&#8217;t finish it, and not wanting to see it go to waste, I drank a bit of it.  It wasn&#8217;t much, but it&#8217;s probably the most alcohol I&#8217;ve ever had in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.  Did I sell out my (admittedly useless) principles?<\/p>\n<p>This has been a landmark week of firsts for me.  I wonder if I&#8217;m going through some kind of mild identity crisis due to some impending doom I&#8217;m expecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I had my first swig of an alcoholic drink. My coworkers and I all went to a bar to celebrate someone&#8217;s birthday. One of them ordered some mango drink, couldn&#8217;t finish it, and not wanting to see it go to waste, I drank a bit of it. It wasn&#8217;t much, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}