{"id":902,"date":"2007-06-12T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=902"},"modified":"2007-06-12T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T03:22:12","slug":"paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/06\/12\/paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget anything I&#8217;ve said about previous versions of there being only two types of people in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 The definitive measure is whether people say they like to paint.<\/p>\n<p>I hate painting.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate the prep.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate the mess.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate the cleanup.\u00c2\u00a0 I frequently run into someone who says, &#8220;I love to paint!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 And I look at him like he&#8217;s still standing in the exhaust cloud of the spaceship that dropped him off on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>I was up in the &#8220;attic&#8221; at the house again this evening, bent over and crumpled up, covered in insulation and dust, sweat dripping down my brow, and all I could think was, &#8220;Thank God I&#8217;m not painting.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t dislike people who claim to enjoy painting, I simply question their self awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget anything I&#8217;ve said about previous versions of there being only two types of people in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 The definitive measure is whether people say they like to paint. I hate painting.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate the prep.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate the mess.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate the cleanup.\u00c2\u00a0 I frequently run into someone who says, &#8220;I love to paint!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9oLlO-paint","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}