{"id":11796,"date":"2022-08-22T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11796"},"modified":"2022-08-22T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:33:10","slug":"wait-what-about-strike-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11796","title":{"rendered":"Wait&#8230;What About Strike One??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you keeping track of the timeline of my love life fail from my ruminations about it here (oh you poor lost souls&#8230;) might recall that about the time of Strike Three&#8217;s visit I had also reconnected with Strike One and had begun visiting him a time or two. I could drive down I-95 and visit both. In retrospect I think the fates were trying to slam something into my head that I wasn&#8217;t ready to admit just then.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why don&#8217;t you give up? How many more times do you need to be kicked in the face?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11798\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/simplifiedprogramming.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/simplifiedprogramming.jpg 843w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/simplifiedprogramming-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/simplifiedprogramming-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you keeping track of the timeline of my love life fail from my ruminations about it here (oh you poor lost souls&#8230;) might recall that about the time of Strike Three&#8217;s visit I had also reconnected with Strike One and had begun visiting him a time or two. I could drive down I-95 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-11796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-lonelyache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}