{"id":1581,"date":"2020-08-26T22:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2020-08-28T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:45:47","slug":"formal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2020\/08\/26\/formal\/","title":{"rendered":"formal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Penzance runnings, I heard two words that aren&#8217;t words on the self-satisfied national air. <\/p>\n<p>First came Politization. This is the unword used by people who are trying to punch intellectually above their weight, when they want to indicate that a situation is becoming politicized. It&#8217;s always uttered with a hesitation that says they know it&#8217;s not quite right, but uh, whatever. <\/p>\n<p>Then the genius Postmaster drone DeJoy treated us to:<\/p>\n<p>Deterorate. <\/p>\n<p>Deter O&#8217;rate. <\/p>\n<p>As in, the language is deter o&#8217;ratin&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to be that sniffy guy. But I feel I have no choice. <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>I never really listened to much Justin Townes Earle, although his father&#8217;s music has been very important to me. <\/p>\n<p>But it is a shame that he&#8217;s dead at 38, and also that the cause is still undisclosed. <\/p>\n<p>We can pretty easily guess from the fact that:<\/p>\n<p><em>Justin survived five heroin overdoses by the time he was 21 &#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It gives me pause as I ramp up once more to try and beat my own addiction, and again I feel blessed that my own is one that kills so slow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Penzance runnings, I heard two words that aren&#8217;t words on the self-satisfied national air. First came Politization. This is the unword used by people who are trying to punch intellectually above their weight, when they want to indicate that a situation is becoming politicized. It&#8217;s always uttered with a hesitation that says they [&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-1581","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\/1581","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=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}