{"id":1679,"date":"2005-12-02T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/12\/02\/its-easier-to-fly-when-my-head-is-held-up\/"},"modified":"2005-12-02T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T02:30:00","slug":"its-easier-to-fly-when-my-head-is-held-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/12\/02\/its-easier-to-fly-when-my-head-is-held-up\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s easier to fly when my head is held up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>Yesterday was World AIDS Day. <a href=\"http:\/\/ruralrob.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">ruralrob<\/a> is an admirable man. Do what you can.    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldaidsday.org\/default.asp\" title=\"Link to the official World AIDS Day website\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldaidsday.org\/images\/virtualribbon.gif\" width=\"120\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Support World AIDS Day\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/shashin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.disconti.nu\/_personnal\/nikki\/\/Canada\/bc\/Burnaby\/sfu\/aq\/2005-11-30%20Snow\/pqgbvrqmms_main.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nMy replacement at work, she slapped my peripheral vision as soon as I walked in. She seems more the kind of person to work in my shop than I could ever be. I can&#8217;t help but approve of her rock-a-billy zebra lunchbox and betty page haircut. They matched her leopard skirt so well. My manager, she just shook her head. Another new girl is no help to her. She&#8217;s only just through teaching me how to run the strangely mis-managed shop around and in spite of how badly and quirkily organized the owner has it set up. It&#8217;s only been November she&#8217;s been able to leave me for hours at a time to handle everything. I almost feel sorry for the new girl. I don&#8217;t know if she has the diplomatic memory to deal with the crying chaos she&#8217;s just been inserted into. Every day reaches a new impasse with stress, introduces another piece of the suspicious labor law puzzle. I&#8217;m counting on my job to be gone when I come back from Montreal, otherwise I may find myself trapped there by a lazy sympathy for my co-workers and that might count as a new dictionary definition of the word <i>dreadful<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So it seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-sci-ebola1dec01,1,6862086.story?ctrack=1&#038;cset=true\">the biological source\/reservoir for the dreaded Ebola Virus are some tiny, cute, and apparently tasty <b>fruitbats<\/b><\/a>. The apparently tasty is why we keep having outbreaks. How fun is that? As fun as <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4489792.stm\">a pack of russian killer squirrels<\/a>? Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,10117,17435521-17001,00.html\">a group of children who fight with machetes to re-enact a battle from Lord of the Rings<\/a>? The jury may still be out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbyrne.com\/journal\/current.php#dmca\">arguing with David Byrne over copyrights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was World AIDS Day. ruralrob is an admirable man. Do what you can. My replacement at work, she slapped my peripheral vision as soon as I walked in. She seems more the kind of person to work in my shop than I could ever be. I can&#8217;t help but approve of her rock-a-billy zebra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/12\/02\/its-easier-to-fly-when-my-head-is-held-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s easier to fly when my head is held up.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[469,49],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awareness","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}