{"id":1170,"date":"2020-01-01T17:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T01:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2024-01-25T08:40:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:40:31","slug":"a-little-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/a-little-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m as annoying as Charles Dickens.  I&#8217;m just not as popular. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you start out, you practice being annoying in the hopes you&#8217;ll prove to have the talent and the breaks to be another Dickens.  Sure, that&#8217;s the dream&#8230;  But as I approach my 67th birthday without having achieved any of that success, I&#8217;m on the verge of being forced to admit to myself that, in the end, I&#8217;m just an asshole.  And  you know, I can live with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m as annoying as Charles Dickens. I&#8217;m just not as popular. When you start out, you practice being annoying in the hopes you&#8217;ll prove to have the talent and the breaks to be another Dickens. Sure, that&#8217;s the dream&#8230; But as I approach my 67th birthday without having achieved any of that success, I&#8217;m on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-iS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}