{"id":757,"date":"2004-05-05T21:52:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/start-agin\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T21:52:35","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T21:52:35","slug":"start-agin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/start-agin\/","title":{"rendered":"Start agin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while I know. But there are reasons. Firstly we didn&#8217;t have IP until very recently (it was hell).Secondly I have been through a very, very low period. There are many reasons for this that I don&#8217;t intend to go into but now we are in our new flat,things are beginning to look more normal.<br \/>\nThirdly, I have actually written stuff but it&#8217;s a bit depressing and, to be honest, scares me when I read it.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; starting afresh.<\/p>\n<p>Had a birthday and it passed very quickly (thank god); I was asleep by 7pm.The Absinth I rejected turned up in a plastic glass, shoved between our window bars (basement flat in New Cross remember) with the words &#8220;you cannot escape the green goblin&#8221; scrawled on the side in eyeliner. I still have it, and how thanful I am that my brain was together enough to reject it at the time- despite allowing a tequila first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BTW- there&#8217;s a mini supermarket along from New Cross station that sold me a tiramisu for 1.59 (UKP) that morning. Not only did this make a decent gift for the other Warmington slaves (a birthday tradition), but it was also one of the best Tiramisus I&#8217;ve ever tasted &#8211; second only to Tree&#8217;s, although in fairness hers was several orders of magnitude better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Loads of other stuff went on recently that have provoked an emotional response, but I&#8217;ll discuss them later:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading &#8220;The Funny Times&#8221; and realising that there are Americans out there who, rightly, feel more irritated with Wanker than anyone outside the country<\/li>\n<li>Seeing the predictible pictures of US and UK soldiers abusing Iraqis in a way that probably makes Saddam proud (P.S. despite what you might think, I don&#8217;t blame the soldiers&#8230;.a topic for another time)<\/li>\n<li>The Space-bar going on this keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Blunkett storming ahead with the nextmove toward a police state<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Goodnight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while I know. But there are reasons. Firstly we didn&#8217;t have IP until very recently (it was hell).Secondly I have been through a very, very low period. There are many reasons for this that I don&#8217;t intend to go into but now we are in our new flat,things are beginning to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}