{"id":2909,"date":"2012-06-14T14:57:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:31:26","slug":"just-thinking-thursday-june-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/just-thinking-thursday-june-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Thinking- Thursday June 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it would be really sad if I had a family member or a friend who joined a cult. \u00a0But if a family member or a friend did join a cult, I would be able to empathize.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d prefer that they join one of the nicer cults, not a scary murderous one or a child-bride one or a suicide one. \u00a0But don&#8217;t they have cults where you just hang out and make homemade cheese and sing songs? \u00a0I bet that no one would be allowed to say &#8220;When it&#8217;s time to sing, why don&#8217;t you just pretend to mouth the words instead of actually singing&#8221; like my 8th grade music teacher said to me. \u00a0It&#8217;d probably be like a group of people who react like my daughter does when I sing: by gazing and smiling at me as if my voice was both soothing and movingly beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be kind of comforting to not always have to come up with meal ideas. \u00a0Cult gruel might get old after a while but at least its predictable. \u00a0Besides, I&#8217;m sure it wouldn&#8217;t be my job to cook it up. There&#8217;d be very few opportunities to get stuck in traffic if my cult was in the woods somewhere. \u00a0I don&#8217;t like camping or being cold or going to the bathroom outside but if I was a well respected memeber maybe I could get everyone to build a latrine. \u00a0I mean if the Leader said it was ok. \u00a0I wonder if woods-cults have iPhones and iPads now, or if the members are too busy cultivating land and chanting to bother with new technology. \u00a0I really love my iPhone so I wouldn&#8217;t want to give it up. \u00a0But I would if it meant I never had to shop for clothes again or dye my hair or stop biting my cuticles.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I&#8217;d rather a relative or a friend be in a cult then become a really pushy gluten-free person. \u00a0I just couldn&#8217;t live with that bullshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it would be really sad if I had a family member or a friend who joined a cult. \u00a0But if a family member or a friend did join a cult, I would be able to empathize. I&#8217;d prefer that they join one of the nicer cults, not a scary murderous one or a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/just-thinking-thursday-june-14th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just Thinking- Thursday June 14th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}