{"id":1127,"date":"2009-03-09T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2009-03-09T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T10:23:16","slug":"both_ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/both_ways.html","title":{"rendered":"Both Ways."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>If you&#8217;re going to play what-if &#8212; which, by the way, is a <\/em>huge<em> waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism &#8212; you have to play it both ways.  If you&#8217;re going to imagine yourself as an accidental victim, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero.  <\/em><br \/>\n-&#8220;Flesh and Bone&#8221; by Jefferson Bass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to play what-if &#8212; which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism &#8212; you have to play it both ways. If you&#8217;re going to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/both_ways.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lit_quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}