{"id":313,"date":"2006-04-11T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=313"},"modified":"2007-05-24T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T18:42:46","slug":"farewell-pitiless-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"The cycle of sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 1:<\/strong> I think I might be getting sick. Maybe. Feel funny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 2:<\/strong> Dang. I&#8217;m sick. Bah. This isn&#8217;t so bad. I can take it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 3:<\/strong> This is it. I&#8217;m going to die.  I&#8217;m going to be one of those guys who snuffs it before reaching middle age. I wonder what my funeral will be like?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 4:<\/strong> I lament that I was ever brought into this world, for it is now my lot to endure these dark horrors.  Life is a vast and joyless expanse of misery and suffering without meaning or merit. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 5:<\/strong> I am infected to the very soul. Each breath is an ordeal.  Each moment a punishment.  My heart may continue to beat, but it does so against my will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 6:<\/strong> I think I&#8217;m on the mend.  Whew.  That was nasty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 7:<\/strong> You&#8217;re getting sick? Tough break. Well, suck it up.  Don&#8217;t be such a baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1: I think I might be getting sick. Maybe. Feel funny. Day 2: Dang. I&#8217;m sick. Bah. This isn&#8217;t so bad. I can take it. Day 3: This is it. I&#8217;m going to die. I&#8217;m going to be one of those guys who snuffs it before reaching middle age. I wonder what my funeral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}