{"id":3400,"date":"2012-01-04T01:03:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T05:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2012-01-04T01:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T05:03:35","slug":"brief-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/brief-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Brief Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

My neighbors have spent their evening watching classics like Stripes, The Big Lebowski and Office Space. These are great movies but this is the 3rd week in a row that it’s midnight and I’m trying to sleep while classics blast next door and it’s the 10th night in a row that the smell of marijuana seeps into my house. I wonder where I would be in life if I spent my time watching old films on repeat and smoking weed. Would I be here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My neighbors have spent their evening watching classics like Stripes, The Big Lebowski and Office Space. 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