{"id":463,"date":"2002-11-18T17:33:31","date_gmt":"2002-11-18T21:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2002-11-18T17:33:31","modified_gmt":"2002-11-18T21:33:31","slug":"a-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"A secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is something you only tell to one person at a time, right? And this blog is such a minority taste that publishing here is, on average, telling fewer than one person at a time. So I&#8217;m not really about to break a promise &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSomeone just showe me some documents from a compensaiton claim put forward by a scaffolder who injured himself a couple of years ago, and since then has done more or less fuck all but wait for the money to come in. As part of his struggle, he was asked to keep a diary. I quote from memory, but the last entry is verbatim.<br \/>\n<div class=\"loony\">\nDecember 2000<br \/>\nLife is shit. feel crap all the time. Broke. Borrowing off family and anyone else who&#8217;ll lend me money. No money for presents for kids. On Christmas day girlfriend comes round to see me. We drink four bottles of wine and stay in bed all day. Life is shit.<br \/>\nJanuary 2001<br \/>\n[blank]<br \/>\nFebruary 2001<br \/>\n[blank]<br \/>\nMarch 2001<br \/>\n[blank]\n\n<p>and so on, all blank, until:<\/p>\n\nSeptember 2001<br \/>\nExcitement! The two towers means there is something to watch on TV for the next two weeks.<br \/>\nStart telling people Mel [girlfriend] is pregnant.<br \/>\nNovember 2001<br \/>\n[blank]<br \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Western Civilisation (Essex division). You have to love it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is something you only tell to one person at a time, right? And this blog is such a minority taste that publishing here is, on average, telling fewer than one person at a time. So I&#8217;m not really about to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}