{"id":451,"date":"2011-11-01T05:50:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T10:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2011-11-01T05:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T10:50:53","slug":"aaaaand-im-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Aaaaand I&#8217;m back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here are the basic results of my <a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/2011\/10\/01\/an-experiment\/\">experiment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blood pressure is consistently lower<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m getting more tasks accomplished at work and at home<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m less combative in general.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That being said, it was a little\u00a0weird\u00a0the first time someone said to me &#8220;Hey, did you hear about [random thing on the news]&#8221; and I had to answer &#8220;No.&#8221; That&#8217;s abnormal for me.<\/p>\n<p>A huge bonus came about week 3. I realized that I had not seen or heard anything from Barack Obama, Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi in three weeks. That made me smile.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to assume that Only Ones are still assholes, Democrats are still for Big Government, Republicans are still for Big Government That Grows At A Slightly Slower Rate, and the media is still lying about pretty much everything. Did any of that change?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to ease back into it, but I really kind of liked not knowing what was going on. I mean, I have a vague idea of what&#8217;s going on with the &#8220;Occupy&#8221; protests, but it doesn&#8217;t enhance my life one bit to know that people who don&#8217;t have jobs, but do have smartphones, laptops, and tents, are protesting the fact that their degrees in women&#8217;s studies didn&#8217;t get them six figure jobs.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, what the hell happened to Rick Perry? He was the frontrunner when I stopped paying attention. And why does it seem to be a Romney\/Cain race at this point? I got off the Cain Train when he said it was totally okay for local governments to ban religious orders they don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here are the basic results of my experiment: Blood pressure is consistently lower I&#8217;m getting more tasks accomplished at work and at home I&#8217;m less combative in general. That being said, it was a little\u00a0weird\u00a0the first time someone said to me &#8220;Hey, did you hear about [random thing on the news]&#8221; and I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}