{"id":1430,"date":"2008-06-08T22:33:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T22:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2008-06-08T22:33:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T22:33:02","slug":"losing_even_more_of_what_littl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/08\/losing_even_more_of_what_littl\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing Even More of What Little Faith in Humanity I Had Left…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Warning:<\/b> Grown-up language ahead. Click away now if you have a weak constitution for that sort of thing.]<\/p>\n

This is what some asshole son-of-a-bitch did to the ragtop of my Mustang on Friday night. From the placement and size of the cuts — near the edge of the top, and right over the door-lock post and the door handle itself — my guess is that someone was attempting to break in, rather than merely vandalizing the car. Not that I’d know anything about how to vandalize a car, since it was drilled into my head from an early age to actually respect<\/i> other people’s property, but it seems to me if the goal had been merely to ruin somebody’s day, the bastard would’ve carved a big X right down the middle or something. But as I said, I don’t know what could be running through the mind of someone who’d do this to another person’s car.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I’ve had a pretty crappy weekend, alternating between surges of impotent rage and a crushing sense of violation and generalized despair. I tell you guys… between losing Rusty<\/a>, various work-related issues that I’m sure no one would be interested in, some personal stuff I’d rather not share, and now this, I’m feeling completely and utterly defeated right now. I know it’s a cliche for old farts to bitch about how the world has gone to hell since they were kids, but, well, it has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Warning: Grown-up language ahead. Click away now if you have a weak constitution for that sort of thing.] This is what some asshole son-of-a-bitch did to the ragtop of my Mustang on Friday night. From the placement and size of the cuts — near the edge of the top, and right over the door-lock post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-old-man-throwing-rocks-at-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}