{"id":1142,"date":"2020-04-06T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T04:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2020-04-06T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T04:23:34","slug":"against-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2020\/04\/06\/against-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Against the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upon a Monday afternoon, I cross the great equatorial line<\/a> into Seventy-Two Hours without any form of nicotine. In keeping with the tradition, I am fed nothing edible and broken on some humiliating racks of craving. <\/p>\n

At the same time I ‘go back to work’, a laughably easy set of abridged assignments that nevertheless take hours and give me a whinging headache–is it the ridiculous vestiges of my stress reaction to wage slavery, or the screaming of addiction, who knows?<\/p>\n

The most interesting thing is that they are offering me a different kind of payout. <\/p>\n

It would extend my employer-based health insurance a few months.<\/p>\n

But it would torpedo my chances to dip into the only reasonable unemployment system I have seen in forty years of working in this backward state. <\/p>\n

So I will risk it, roll the dice on Massie’s Pure Trap Cheese. <\/p>\n

With the work behind me there is still light. I could, and want to very much, ride down to the store, get the water, a drive would be<\/p>\n

Good for you, liar, liar, addict. <\/p>\n

Now it is night. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow at this time I will have been rightly locked away for a solid week. <\/p>\n

I will be past the four-day mark of zero nic. <\/p>\n

The plausible reasons to go out will continue to pile up. <\/p>\n

My character will continue to be brutally assessed by God. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upon a Monday afternoon, I cross the great equatorial line into Seventy-Two Hours without any form of nicotine. In keeping with the tradition, I am fed nothing edible and broken on some humiliating racks of craving. At the same time I ‘go back to work’, a laughably easy set of abridged assignments that nevertheless take […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","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=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}