{"id":45580,"date":"2017-12-22T21:04:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T01:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45580"},"modified":"2020-08-04T21:04:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T01:04:57","slug":"uh-happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45580","title":{"rendered":"Uh.. happy holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look, I could curate what I decide to post when, in accordance to the holidays, or I can talk about relevant and current happenings when they\u2019re fresh and breaking.\u00a0 That\u2019s what life is, unflinching and unforgiving in the face of capitalistic traditions like holidays and seasons, and shit happens no matter what time of the year is.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when bodies are being found in the trunks of abandoned cars outside of Waffle Houses<\/a> right before the Christmas weekend is under way, it\u2019s worth mentioning, even if it\u2019s kind of a wet blanket in the goodness and joy of an impending holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Especially since it happened at a particular Waffle House that was not only not that far from where I used to live, it was one of the Waffle Houses that I\u2019d been to several times the mornings after a bender of earlier years.<\/span><\/p>\n

I say it often, that not a day goes by that I\u2019m thankful to have gotten from my previous home; I\u2019ll always miss the experience and memories accumulated by living there, but I will never, ever miss the degradation of the area and the steep downhill direction South Fulton county was headed.\u00a0 When I moved out, I was concerned over the escalating petty crimes, the break-ins and bad driving behavior; through the magic ear of NextDoor, I\u2019ve been able to know that it\u2019s been going further downhill with loitering and gunshots entering the fold.<\/span><\/p>\n

I never thought, but I guess I should have expected, that eventually some fatalities would come into play, and dead bodies being found in the parking lots of Waffle House?\u00a0 Yeah, I think that\u2019s one of the nails in the coffin of relief that I truly feeling having gotten away from the area.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus Christ, that was something you don\u2019t really expect to hear happening in your neighborhoods, much less your former ones that you\u2019re glad to have gotten away from.\u00a0 But either way, given the direction that South Fulton is headed, I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m the least bit surprised.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever though, it\u2019s unfortunate that it happened, but as callous as it sounds, better them over there, than anyone over where I am now.\u00a0 The holidays are supposed to be a time of relative peace and happiness, but clearly some people haven\u2019t gotten the memo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, to all of my now, zero readers, Happy Kwanzaa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look, I could curate what I decide to post when, in accordance to the holidays, or I can talk about relevant and current happenings when they\u2019re fresh and breaking.\u00a0 That\u2019s what life is, unflinching and unforgiving in the face of capitalistic traditions like holidays and seasons, and shit happens no matter what time of the … Continue reading Uh.. happy holidays!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,112,101,49,46],"class_list":["post-45580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-bataria","tag-crime","tag-holidays","tag-wtf","tag-zombieland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45582,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45580\/revisions\/45582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}