{"id":181,"date":"2001-09-26T16:35:42","date_gmt":"2001-09-26T21:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2001-09-26T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2001-09-26T21:35:42","slug":"god-save-me-from-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"God save me from Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God save me from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasc.com\/\" title=\"Paint Shop Pro home\">Paint Shop Pro<\/a>.&nbsp; If there ever was a method for me to hyperfocus on the insignificant, that program is it.&nbsp;  I make all those &#8212; well, most of &#8212; little icons on the top left.&nbsp;  And if it&#8217;s a copied graphic, then I just have to tweak it to death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>Enough!&nbsp; &#8230;enough, already.&nbsp;  That&#8217;s not my life &#8212; at least I hope it isn&#8217;t.<\/i>.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTime is running out.&nbsp;  I want to tell you how the air felt when I shut off the a\/c today and opened the window for the first time in weeks.&nbsp;  I want to explain that my landlord reminds me of my father, just because he&#8217;s the man who owns the house.&nbsp;  I would like to capture in words this fleeting terror that comes and goes unbidden, without warning &#8212; even without words, I would like to capture it and send it on its way, like an unwanted bug in my bed.&nbsp;  I want to say so much.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday, the air was like the air <a href=\"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blogchive\/2001_09_01_chive.htm#5635933\" title=\"Tuesday, 9\/11\/01\">two weeks ago<\/a>, the sky precious blue and clear, the sun warm; a joy just to breathe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God save me from Paint Shop Pro.&nbsp; If there ever was a method for me to hyperfocus on the insignificant, that program is it.&nbsp; I make all those &#8212; well, most of &#8212; little icons on the top left.&nbsp; And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}