{"id":10166,"date":"2026-05-11T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:27:05","slug":"its-like-this-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/05\/11\/its-like-this-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Like This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just about avoiding spending money on motels and microwaves and plane tickets. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t want to spend money <em>at all<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, that&#8217;s an idealized goal and not a practical viable target that can realistically ever be hit, in Civ World.<\/p>\n<p>But letting it abide within the theoretical and aspirational &#8230; isn&#8217;t bad or wrong or inconsistent. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have to get cream from the store because the alternative is owning and caring for livestock. (Or, of course, just living without cream&#8211;which is not unthinkable &#8230; )<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, for the coffee the cream goes into.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working out the details as I go. <\/p>\n<p>Going-without is an ideal strategy, when it comes to the nicotine drug. <\/p>\n<p>And one other shardlet: To the extent that I <strong>do<\/strong> spend, as much as possible, it should be on things that eliminate future expenses. <\/p>\n<p>Think of the solar panels, think of the drilled well. <\/p>\n<p>A battery-box\/air compressor and a few tools I already own will make it less likely that I&#8217;ll ever need AAA. <\/p>\n<p>Like that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just about avoiding spending money on motels and microwaves and plane tickets. It&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t want to spend money at all. Sure, that&#8217;s an idealized goal and not a practical viable target that can realistically ever be hit, in Civ World. But letting it abide within the theoretical and aspirational &#8230; isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10167,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}