{"id":467,"date":"2005-08-30T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T02:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/08\/30\/a-plasmatic-stew-of-jolting-stimuli-and-revolting-news\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T20:46:10","slug":"a-plasmatic-stew-of-jolting-stimuli-and-revolting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/467","title":{"rendered":"A plasmatic stew of jolting stimuli and revolting news"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\n •   Another portion of America is singled out<\/a> by Mother Nature for a round of devastation and paralyzing emotional trauma.\n<\/p>\n

•   I observe in a mirror the image of my departed brother-in-law, sneering back at me as a pirate captain, his frame bristling with weapons.\n<\/p>\n

•   The pet cat of a friend is stomped to death by an angry husband, plunging her life into a miserable chain-reaction of self-rescuing actions.\n<\/p>\n

•   My Governor<\/a> declares his daring intent to cast a wide safety net of pardons to spike the ambitions of the unsavory political boss currently abusing the office of Attorney General.\n<\/p>\n

•   Jeffrey and Lea’s dachshund “Odie” is slaughtered by a coyote in the woods behind their home at The Blue Bank Farm.\n<\/p>\n

•   Paula, the state employee who coordinates the work of the KBBC<\/a> and assists those of us who sit on the panel, took indefinite sick leave with the news that she has pancreatic cancer spreading to her liver.\n<\/p>\n

•   My friend and favorite neighbor Danny<\/a> is preparing to move his family to Kansas.\n<\/p>\n

•   Bruce<\/a>‘s condition yo-yos from lucid progress to feverish setback, almost on a daily basis.\n<\/p>\n

•   We learn that Marty<\/a> will be leaving Kentucky to live with his mother and her boyfriend in South Carolina.\n<\/p>\n

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  •   Another portion of America is singled out by Mother Nature for a round of devastation and paralyzing emotional trauma. •   I observe in a mirror the image of my departed brother-in-law, sneering back at me as a pirate captain, his frame bristling with weapons. •   The pet cat of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,68,18,8,63,28,24,41,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}