{"id":34,"date":"2004-06-30T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2004-06-30T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T12:00:21","slug":"familial-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/06\/30\/familial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Familial Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>Thanks so much to all my family for the support they have given me over the past few weeks. I&rsquo;m very, very blessed in this regard. You&rsquo;re all super-awesome \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>My eyes turn west of late,<br \/> I remember a cheesy line from Shanghai Noon:<br \/> <em>The Sun may rise in the east,<br \/> but this is where it sets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even so, westward lies new beginnings,<br \/> not an end.  My purpose is not clear.<br \/> Like the lightning bug,<br \/> I do a courtship dance on instinct &#8211;<br \/> my thunder has always been too quiet,<br \/> and now: no need, no need, no need.<\/p>\n<p>I try to contemplate useful things<br \/> that I might do if my butt could light up.<br \/> <em>Gluteus Maximus Phosphorificus<\/em> &ndash;<br \/> Hmmm, a handy acronym that sounds like gimp.<br \/> I guess I&rsquo;ll pass, look into more<br \/> lucrative super-powers &mdash; like,<br \/> retractable hair.  I&rsquo;d never have to worry<br \/> then about male pattern baldness.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not sure whether I should<br \/> envy the lightning bug, or<br \/> pity him.<br \/> At least for him, courtship is only<br \/> a matter of whose butt<br \/> glows the brightest.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks so much to all my family for the support they have given me over the past few weeks. I&rsquo;m very, very blessed in this regard. You&rsquo;re all super-awesome \ud83d\ude42 My eyes turn west of late, I remember a cheesy line from Shanghai Noon: The Sun may rise in the east, but this is where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}