{"id":31,"date":"2007-03-17T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T19:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-03-17T20:43:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T19:43:03","slug":"afterthought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2007\/afterthought","title":{"rendered":"Afterthought"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you were wondering how it is to give up alcohol for Lent, here are some things I’ve noticed:<\/p>\n

– It simplifies my life.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t have to worry about opening a bottle or not, and what to do with it in a one-person m\u00c3\u00a9nage once open.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t have to worry about wine selection for dinners or about which bottle to buy in the store.<\/p>\n

– It’s surprisingly easy.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t experience cravings or nearly slip up.\u00c2\u00a0 The only time I consumed alcohol was in a chocolate praline by accident.<\/p>\n

– Other things would be way harder to give up, but maybe it’s like exercise: I need to build up the muscles of self-discipline.\u00c2\u00a0 If I can’t manage the Taipei Sheraton buffet, I’ve still got a long way to go.\u00c2\u00a0 So next year: buying books and CDs?\u00c2\u00a0 Myspace?\u00c2\u00a0 E-mail?<\/p>\n

– I realize that it’d be harder to give up e-mail than to give up going to church, at least in my Gedankenexperiment.\u00c2\u00a0 What does that say about priorities?<\/p>\n

– Nobody really needs alcohol, but I’m looking forward to Easter.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe fewer but better bottles should be my next step?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you were wondering how it is to give up alcohol for Lent, here are some things I’ve noticed: – It simplifies my life.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t have to worry about opening a bottle or not, and what to do with it in a one-person m\u00c3\u00a9nage once open.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t have to worry about wine selection for dinners or about which bottle to buy in the store. – It’s surprisingly easy.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t experience cravings or nearly slip up.\u00c2\u00a0 The only time I consumed alcohol was in a chocolate praline by accident. – Other things would be way harder to give up, but maybe it’s like exercise: I need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}