{"id":393,"date":"2005-07-01T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=393"},"modified":"2005-07-01T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T20:27:08","slug":"breathe-in-breathe-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Breathe in, breathe out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care if you <strong>are<\/strong> an 80-year old woman&#8230; if you&#8217;re holding your portable oxygen machine in one hand and your cigarette in the other, I have every right in the world to punch you.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, if you&#8217;re performing in a charity benefit concert and accept the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/entertainment\/music\/12023967.htm\">$12,000 goodie bag<\/a> that comes with your 15 minutes of singing (plus other luxuries I&#8217;m sure an impoverished African boy would love, such as gourmet ice cream, bottled water, a fly swatter and the like), I have every right in the world to punch you.<\/p>\n<p>If you give an impassioned speech about the plight of the poor in the third world while holding said goodie bag, then I hope and pray that the bag also contains the Cliff&#8217;s Notes to the last two chapters of &#8220;The Kurt Cobain Story&#8221; and a notepad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care if you are an 80-year old woman&#8230; if you&#8217;re holding your portable oxygen machine in one hand and your cigarette in the other, I have every right in the world to punch you. Furthermore, if you&#8217;re performing in a charity benefit concert and accept the $12,000 goodie bag that comes with your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=393\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breathe in, breathe out.<\/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":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}