{"id":473,"date":"2005-08-24T14:53:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/08\/24\/nbsp-8220youre-a-traitor-to-the-pirate-cause8221-8212squid-the-urchin-nbsp\/"},"modified":"2005-08-24T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T19:53:05","slug":"nbsp-8220youre-a-traitor-to-the-pirate-cause8221-8212squid-the-urchin-nbsp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/473","title":{"rendered":":::: &amp;nbsp; &amp;#8220;You&#8217;re a traitor to the Pirate Cause!&amp;#8221;  &amp;#8212;Squid the Urchin &amp;nbsp; :::"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/nfd\/2005\/08\/24\/0\">Ian<\/a> is heading out West. It will be an adventure.\n<\/p>\n<p>How do I know it will be an adventure?\n<\/p>\n<p>Because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/uj\/2005\/05\/15\">Ian<\/a> is heading out West.\n<\/p>\n<p>I remember the exact day that Ian turned cool. It was the same day my brother Jerome got married. I don&#8217;t recall the year, but during the wedding reception there was a precise moment when Ian turned unmistakably cool. Most likely he&#8217;d already been semi-cool for a long time.\n<\/p>\n<p>I remember reading Ian&#8217;s blog for quite a while, but I guess it hurt too much, so I stopped. It made me think a lot about the painful stuff I couldn&#8217;t write down at his age. I hadn&#8217;t learned yet how to use my journal to transmute all that torment. I chose to do stupid stuff instead. It was a time when young people did a lot of stupid stuff. Maybe it was more like today than I recognize. Maybe not.\n<\/p>\n<p>I also remember the time when another of my brothers decided to create a new nickname for Ian. James tried to get people to say &#8220;Largian.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t stick. Lot&#8217;s of things never stuck to Ian.\n<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, my nephew.\n<\/p>\n<p>Be safe. Have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ian is heading out West. It will be an adventure. How do I know it will be an adventure? Because Ian is heading out West. I remember the exact day that Ian turned cool. It was the same day my brother Jerome got married. I don&#8217;t recall the year, but during the wedding reception [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,33,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}