{"id":13214,"date":"2024-10-03T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=13214"},"modified":"2024-10-03T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:20:00","slug":"when-i-will-know-its-time-to-quit-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/13214","title":{"rendered":"When I Will Know It&#8217;s Time To Quit Drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Facebook stream just now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13215\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/drunkenbirds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/drunkenbirds.jpg 526w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/drunkenbirds-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These aren&#8217;t dead birds, they&#8217;re drunk on the fermented berries you see scattered around them. Poster says good people move them to a safe place to sober up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been backing off the alcohol ever since I began seeing that beyond just one drink I start getting heart flutters. My cardiologist agrees. So I am unlikely to be found lying drunk on a sidewalk. But if the day ever comes I wake up in a little cardboard box with a water dish and some bird seed in it, that&#8217;s when I stop altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Facebook stream just now&#8230; These aren&#8217;t dead birds, they&#8217;re drunk on the fermented berries you see scattered around them. Poster says good people move them to a safe place to sober up. I&#8217;ve been backing off the alcohol ever since I began seeing that beyond just one drink I start getting [&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":[95],"class_list":["post-13214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-schrodingers-bag-o-laughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214","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=13214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13216,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions\/13216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}