{"id":237,"date":"2002-02-07T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2002-02-07T15:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2002-02-07T10:46:03","modified_gmt":"2002-02-07T15:46:03","slug":"nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What am I, <a href=\"opWin('http:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/dsl_diary\/other\/179623', 'PopupWin', 'toolbar=no,menubar=yes,status=no,left=20,top=10,width=860,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');\">fuckin&#8217; nuts<\/a>!?!&nbsp; Well, yes.&nbsp;  I am.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>This, dearies, is the ugly side of a DSL addiction.&nbsp;  There is no treatment.&nbsp;  If there were, I would not want it since I already know what the treatment is for most addictions?I work at a detox.&nbsp;  Besides, it is easier to keep using the twisted pair, especially now, since cancelling my pending DSL install now will cost almost as much as going through with it.&nbsp;  (Now fade-in Meatloaf&#8217;s <i>Paradise by the Dashboard Light<\/i>.).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I looked at 2 apartments yesterday, one too big, and the other just about right.&nbsp;  $1050 and $975 respectively.&nbsp;  Are landlords in this dumpy city fuckin&#8217; nuts too?&nbsp; Well, yes.&nbsp;  They are.&nbsp;  Only they also own the property.&nbsp;  They are salivatingly unaware that Worcester rental prices are not supposed to be as high as rents in Boston or New York.&nbsp; However, no penalty will be exacted for their blithe gouging, for I have not the means to penalize them, and I have no faith that the open market will be Robin Hood for me.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>If I don&#8217;t eat for six weeks, I&#8217;ll maybe have enough for shelter <i>and<\/i> DSL.&nbsp;  Maybe.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>So, does anybody want to buy my teeth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What am I, fuckin&#8217; nuts!?!&nbsp; Well, yes.&nbsp; I am.&nbsp; This, dearies, is the ugly side of a DSL addiction.&nbsp; There is no treatment.&nbsp; If there were, I would not want it since I already know what the treatment is for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=237\">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":[259,29,99,452,451,54,93],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-boston","tag-dsl","tag-new-york","tag-robin-hood","tag-twisted-pair","tag-usd","tag-worcester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}