{"id":156,"date":"2005-06-23T18:18:40","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T23:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2005-06-23T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T23:50:55","slug":"156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/23\/156\/","title":{"rendered":"Tada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/faces\/happy.gif\" class=\"face\" \/>So I came out alive.  Still have both my arms and legs.  Brain is a little smaller though. :clap: I even got a little souvenir in the form of the mousepad they had at the computers. (I didn&#8217;t steal it though, I asked for it.)<\/p>\n<p><em>How does something that affects someone else&#8217;s life affect yours?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On my way home, I saw something thought provoking.  There were a bunch of kids, maybe in their late teens, laughing and joking around on the side of the freeway next to what I&#8217;m assuming was their stalled car.  Poor kids.  They were all wearing some sort of Detroit Piston paraphernalia.  Poor kids.  But that&#8217;s beside the point.<\/p>\n<p>What I realized though, was that I witnessed something those kids are probably going to remember for the rest of their days.  I wondered what kind of impact it&#8217;s going to have their lives.  It was like watching &#8216;Stand By Me&#8217;.  And then I wondered, how is witnessing their experience going to affect <em>my<\/em> life?  Sometimes its really eye opening to see that you are not the only person living out your life on Earth.  :ponder:<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m wondering if any of them got hit by a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I came out alive. Still have both my arms and legs. Brain is a little smaller though. :clap: I even got a little souvenir in the form of the mousepad they had at the computers. (I didn&#8217;t steal it though, I asked for it.) How does something that affects someone else&#8217;s life affect yours? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}