{"id":16,"date":"2007-08-17T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-08-17T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T00:37:00","slug":"and-i-will-not-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"And I Will Not Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/situpsandporn\" target=\"_blank\">brother<\/a> starred in a movie called <em>Metal Gear Retarded<\/em> while he was in Japan.  I&#8217;ve seen a rough cut, and needless to say, it&#8217;s totally awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Given the marathon of problems that I&#8217;ve incurred lately, it should come as no surprise that I&#8217;ve still yet to buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.canon.com\/app\/html\/HDV\/HV20\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Canon HV-20<\/a> that I finally managed to settle on.  I want to get it so I can make a damn movie.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;d have time anyway.  I&#8217;ve subsisted through unemployment so far by doing odd jobs and contract work.  The problem with that is that, while they do take care of the short-term problem, they also take up time that I would prefer to be using applying for more permanent positions.  Throw that on top of the natural stress, plus the fact that I don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;m going to be living in two weeks, and it comes pretty clear that I haven&#8217;t been able to do anything creative all summer.<\/p>\n<p>It could always be worse, though.  A friend has had a <em>real<\/em> nightmare of a summer.  Personal tragedy is a lot worse than not having a job.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, at least I don&#8217;t have VD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother starred in a movie called Metal Gear Retarded while he was in Japan. I&#8217;ve seen a rough cut, and needless to say, it&#8217;s totally awesome. Given the marathon of problems that I&#8217;ve incurred lately, it should come as no surprise that I&#8217;ve still yet to buy the Canon HV-20 that I finally managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,9],"tags":[20,21,24,25],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","category-films","category-metal-gear-retarded","category-personal","tag-camera","tag-films","tag-metal-gear-retarded","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullcontactorigami.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}