{"id":4337,"date":"2010-01-11T20:23:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2010-01-11T20:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:23:39","slug":"taking-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4337","title":{"rendered":"Taking Stock…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damn…<\/p>\n

I own a house of my own.<\/p>\n

And…a Mercedes-Benz…that I bought New<\/em>…<\/p>\n

New…!<\/em> It’s mine…<\/p>\n

And I’m working for the Hubble Space Telescope…<\/p>\n

I’m actually working for the space program… \u00a0 The fucking Space Program!<\/em> Making a living at it…getting a paycheck for it and everything… \u00a0 A really nice paycheck…<\/p>\n

And I live within walking distance of where I work…and to two nice grocery stores and some nice restaurants and stuff…<\/p>\n

And…I can just decide if I want to take a vacation to Key West later this spring…<\/p>\n

Or go for a drive through the southwest…<\/p>\n

And I own a house of my own…a fucking house of my own<\/em>…<\/p>\n

A house of my own…<\/p>\n

How the hell did this ever happen to me<\/em>…<\/p>\n

The little geek whose clothes never fit right. \u00a0 I was the joke of my Jr. High… \u00a0 Ugly. \u00a0 Crooked teeth. \u00a0 Weird. \u00a0 Everyone laughed… \u00a0 I was a nerd… \u00a0 \u00a0 A nothing…a little faggot… \u00a0 \u00a0 A laugh…<\/p>\n

Figured I’d always be a stock boy…a disposable run of the mill nothing…living in rented rooms somewhere if I was lucky… \u00a0 Just struggling to survive and make ends meet… \u00a0 Ugly…an ugly nothing…<\/p>\n

How the hell did all this ever happen to me<\/em>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damn… I own a house of my own. And…a Mercedes-Benz…that I bought New… New…! It’s mine… And I’m working for the Hubble Space Telescope… I’m actually working for the space program… \u00a0 The fucking Space Program! Making a living at it…getting a paycheck for it and everything… \u00a0 A really nice paycheck… And I live […]<\/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":[80],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life-rapture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","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=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}