{"id":83,"date":"2025-12-13T00:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2025-12-13T00:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:38:13","slug":"making-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/12\/2025\/83\/making-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got up this morning, had my coffee, brushed my teeth and, oh yeah, got dressed so as not to embarrass my wife. You&#8217;ll be glad I did to! This has nothing to do with anything earthly but we got a new cat. I also got dressed so as not to embarrass the cat also. What I won&#8217;t do for the sanity of all concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all of the foregoing ensued I sat down at this computer and pounded out a page that I had been itching to write for years but thought the itch was poison oak. <a href=\"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/reality\/\">It is here<\/a> and read it only if you have a strong constitution. Over the past months I have been horribly bothered by politics. On one side you have a party that is trying their darnedest to be gentlemen while on the other you have a party that just wants everyone to party instead of getting anything done. Hell, they even shut down the government so they could party hearty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a realist. I am no one who thinks life owes me a blessed thing except perhaps, a less than gory death on some freeway or getting a hole in my head (that&#8217;s quick!) during a bank robbery. You need to think of these things just so you know how good you have it. I don&#8217;t like a lot of stuff but I have it pretty good and nobody gave me much except life itself. After birth and the niceties of being helpless I was pretty much on my own. First job at fifteen and I never stopped working and it wasn&#8217;t on computers. Those were a pipe dream back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, this is to preface my telling you that you should read that page I linked above. Have you noticed that I get a lot of stuff in one article and that is exactly the reason no newspaper would ever hire me? It&#8217;s true and thanks for putting up with this old part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Views: 117<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up this morning, had my coffee, brushed my teeth and, oh yeah, got dressed so as not to embarrass my wife. You&#8217;ll be glad I did to! This has nothing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glorp","category-linear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}