{"id":243,"date":"2003-10-13T21:59:51","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T04:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/rants-2\/"},"modified":"2003-10-13T21:59:51","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T04:59:51","slug":"rants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/rants-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To rant, or not to rant, that is the question.  Every now and then it just bursts out of me.  Most times I can manage to maintain my cool. I believe it&#8217;s healthy to rant, and I&#8217;m not sure why I don&#8217;t rant more, since it feels Sooooo GOOD!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI could rant about a family situation that needs to be resolved, or about STUPID drivers who shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to drive when they forget to bring their brains along.  I could complain about house maintenance that really needed to be done years ago and is STILL waiting, or I could rant about my own indecisiveness.<br \/>\nI could snarl at the dryer that&#8217;s been shrinking all my clothes, or the unbelieveable expectations of the Adkins diet!  Then, there&#8217;s this spectacular plant that was just astounding in my gardens this year, and it turns out it&#8217;s an ANNUAL! Twenty bucks I spent for three of them&#8230;..I NEVER spend that kind of money on annuals&#8230;&#8230;Oh, sorry&#8230;.got side tracked.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to continue ranting about the cost of prescription meds,  and add property taxes to the list of absurd things our peers have forced on us.<br \/>\nI want to take to task parents who can&#8217;t be bothered to spend time guiding their children, and children who can&#8217;t be bothered to keep in touch with their aging parents.<br \/>\nI want to beat up people who kick cats, and who aim for living creatures on the road, and I want to do severe damage to adults who suck kids into gangs and then demand as initiation a drive by shooting.<br \/>\nI want to think of nasty and inventive ways to pursuade people not to lie!<br \/>\nAND, I&#8217;d like to remind you that just because I tend to write about good things&#8230;.or NICE things&#8230;..that doesn&#8217;t mean I am unable to think less of you if you are rude to me, or if you flip me off because you think I am too OLD to understand what you&#8217;re thinking.<br \/>\n(shooting my too short from the dryer cuffs&#8230;..circling my chin&#8230;&#8230;visably settling my feathers.)<br \/>\nI hope yall have a LOVELY night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To rant, or not to rant, that is the question. Every now and then it just bursts out of me. Most times I can manage to maintain my cool. I believe it&#8217;s healthy to rant, and I&#8217;m not sure why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/rants-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}