{"id":9099,"date":"2015-04-10T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=9099"},"modified":"2015-04-20T09:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:05:31","slug":"the-comfort-in-being-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/the-comfort-in-being-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Comfort in Being Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/sadness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/sadness.jpg\" alt=\"sadness\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/sadness.jpg 500w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/sadness-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doc,<br \/>\nI muttered,<br \/>\nIt was better before<br \/>\nI was on this shit<br \/>\nBecause Now<br \/>\nI\u2019m not pissed<br \/>\nAt the pseudo buzzed<br \/>\nFortnight tip frosters<br \/>\nOn MTV<br \/>\nSpring Break<br \/>\nFort Lauderdale<\/p>\n<p>Or the lady<br \/>\nIn my faculty room<br \/>\nMicrowaving<br \/>\nThe shit<br \/>\nOut of<br \/>\nHer goddamn,<br \/>\nPhony artisan,<br \/>\n\u2018Wood Fire Style<br \/>\nRoasted Chicken<br \/>\nGarlic Pizza\u2019<br \/>\nLean Cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>Damn it,<br \/>\nDoc,<br \/>\nIt isn\u2019t even<br \/>\nZoloft.<br \/>\nI\u2019m on<br \/>\nThe charitable version<br \/>\nThat Pfizer pushes<br \/>\nTo its sparsely<br \/>\nEndowed<br \/>\nDevotees and<br \/>\nHypochondriacs.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m not even pissy<br \/>\nThat the hedge funders<br \/>\nAre on the good shit<br \/>\nWhile I slunk out<br \/>\nOf my Grandpa\u2019s old mattress,<br \/>\nFumble for the orange tube,<br \/>\nSquint,<br \/>\nMutter,<br \/>\n\u201cSer-tra-line,\u201d<br \/>\nAnd fill my pill box<br \/>\nFor the week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Joseph, who is very self-conscious, teaches English at the college level.\u00a0 He loves all animals\u2013especially his dogs, Megan and Frankie\u2013and enjoys thinking about writing much more than the act of writing itself.\u00a0 He is a daydreamer and is repulsed by social media.\u00a0 His family is understanding of his mood swings and he sleeps with a hatchet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc,<br \/>\nI muttered,<br \/>\nIt was better before<br \/>\nI was on this shit<br \/>\nBecause Now<br \/>\nI\u2019m not pissed<br \/>\nAt the pseudo buzzed<br \/>\nFortnight tip frosters<br \/>\nOn MTV<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p22yCp-2mL\">READ MORE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":9202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9262,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions\/9262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}