{"id":494,"date":"2007-12-01T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=494"},"modified":"2007-12-01T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T13:14:30","slug":"and-everything-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"And everything else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we were talking about our cat, my wife mentioned; &#8220;What would we do without him&#8221;, and I replied &#8220;Everything else!&#8221; And this brought to mind an old saying that was common when I was in the Navy. &#8220;A bitchy sailor, is a happy sailor&#8221;. This is more or less what blogging is about, a place and a platform to bitch about things, and as I blog more about politicians and government, I could apply this meaningful cat dialog to my blogging. What would I do without bad politicians and rotten government, why, <strong>everything else<\/strong>. Governments could reform health care, cure cancer and fly to the Moon, Mars and the Stars. We could live in peace and have happier lives with our families. And I would have  to find another subject to blog about. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we were talking about our cat, my wife mentioned; &#8220;What would we do without him&#8221;, and I replied &#8220;Everything else!&#8221; And this brought to mind an old saying that was common when I was in the Navy. &#8220;A bitchy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=494\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And everything else<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,42,22,6,68,35,8,12,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-corruption","category-family","category-funny-things","category-government","category-lifestyle","category-politics","category-science","category-the-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}