{"id":299,"date":"2007-08-22T13:12:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T20:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2015-03-30T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T02:55:17","slug":"pay-some-attention-to-that-man-behind-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Pay Some Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to turn 45 on Saturday. Looking back on my four and a half decades, I&#8217;d sum up my life as at least a partial success. My lack of accomplishments is offset by my lack of a prison record and I&#8217;ve even managed to have some fun during the journey. I can claim to be self-actualized, at least in a Zaphod Beeblebrox sort of way.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s not forget that life isn&#8217;t over. No doctors have told me that I have six months to live and I intend on keeping it that way by avoiding them whenever possible. However, if I see a physician bust out his prescription pad and shout &#8220;who wants to party?&#8221; I might be persuaded to soften my position on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m going to celebrate having lasted this long at the Argus Lounge on Saturday, August 25, starting at 8 pm. I have already invited a bunch of my my friends and would like to extend that invitation to you, my cherished readers. So if you&#8217;re in the neighborhood and feel like stopping in to say hello to the guy responsible for Poison Spur, please do. You&#8217;ll make this attention slut very happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to turn 45 on Saturday. Looking back on my four and a half decades, I&#8217;d sum up my life as at least a partial success. My lack of accomplishments is offset by my lack of a prison record and I&#8217;ve even managed to have some fun during the journey. I can claim to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/?p=299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pay Some Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}