{"id":9893,"date":"2026-04-02T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9893"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:49:42","slug":"out-like-a-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/04\/02\/out-like-a-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Like A Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3LqSJPjb1Qc\">The shooting wars have been only the tip of the evil iceberg<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Let us all pray that the Empire&#8217;s effectiveness in wielding both kinds of wars will end as the professor suggests. <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the blessing of the vacation time wrapped up. I paid a Silver bill, and then I pointed her car back to this marginal Basecamp on the shores of the Painted Desert. <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was harder. We had to rescue one kitty back from PetSmart (yes you read that right), say goodbye to another one, and then engage in a rewarding but emotionally challenging exchange with half of what&#8217;s left of my familial inner circle. To be clear, I am so very grateful that I had that chance. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday we took care of a pre-existing kitty and then said our own goodbyes. I plunged headfirst into the bedclothes and slept in raw chunks, waking now and then to begin the unpacking and care for the now-amplified feline population. <\/p>\n<p>Very early this Thursday I began to take care of my self, by which I mean mostly my head and the superfine instrument inside it. Then I crashed once more, almost properly this time, and had one more 5+ hour sleep from six to noon, edging back toward what they called back in John Jay&#8217;s time a Normalcy. <\/p>\n<p>Now you are caught up on the HowAmI question. I am somewhat bloody, but still unbowed.<\/p>\n<p>I am by my own lights and probably yours &#8216;negative&#8217; and pessimistic, but that does not always paralyze me with traumatic depression.<\/p>\n<p>Let life begin anew in the rubber dust of an interstate town, and God grant me the vitality to live well and leonine here once more, until such time as I may find myself longing for More Than This, and proceeding confidently in the direction of my modest dreams &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Or however that platitude is supposed to go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shooting wars have been only the tip of the evil iceberg. Let us all pray that the Empire&#8217;s effectiveness in wielding both kinds of wars will end as the professor suggests. *** On Monday the blessing of the vacation time wrapped up. I paid a Silver bill, and then I pointed her car back [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9893","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\/9893","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=9893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9894,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893\/revisions\/9894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}