{"id":1865,"date":"2007-08-21T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/21\/four-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T23:41:00","slug":"four-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/four-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Four years ago???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really impressed by the fact that I hold the <i>exact<\/i> same philosophy as I did four years ago. I was just lookin&#8217; through LJ for the post where I hint that I lost my virginity and I came upon <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.livejournal.com\/13023.html\">this one<\/a> first &#8211; and, like, wow. That&#8217;s the same conversation I&#8217;ve been having with my parents for the past few days.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m an atheist; life has no universal meaning; the constant I live by is &#8220;life is good.&#8221;<br \/>\nThen the rest of that post goes into talking about trolls for some reason, but it is an interesting observation that I forgot about: some don&#8217;t go by the given &#8220;life is good,&#8221; instead, they go by &#8220;MY life is good&#8221; and say fuck y&#8217;all to everyone else.<br \/>\nFour years ago, man! Back then stuff was great! I was readyin&#8217; for Santa Cruz, saying goodbye to good friends for the time being, and basically recovering from one hell of an emotional summer. I was feeling anti-social, and couldn&#8217;t wait to jump into a new environment in which to make friends. Also I made this <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jeffreyatw.com\/test.html\">awesome quiz<\/a> which I still think is pretty relevant I&#8217;d say.<br \/>\nFour years later I&#8217;m coming down from another pretty emotional summer, just about to move away from the Bay Area again, looking to make new friends, and preachin&#8217; the exact same message as I once was. History repeats itself.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d say the biggest difference between now and then is that back then a lot of commenters were really freaking nice on LJ and I was nice back to them but now I&#8217;m a total dickhole to all of my LJ friends. Maybe I should start using mood icons again to reach for fake sympathy. Look I&#8217;m being a dickhole again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really impressed by the fact that I hold the exact same philosophy as I did four years ago. I was just lookin&#8217; through LJ for the post where I hint that I lost my virginity and I came upon this one first &#8211; and, like, wow. That&#8217;s the same conversation I&#8217;ve been having with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/four-years-ago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four years ago???<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}