{"id":30,"date":"2009-03-01T18:29:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:21","slug":"monday-february-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/monday-february-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, February 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<br \/>\nI want a new job but fear that the problem is that I don&#8217;t want any job.  Could this be?  I&#8217;m pretty smart and normal.<br \/>\nWorried,<\/p>\n<p>Very Worried<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Very Worried,<br \/>\nI get this question often, and want to assure you that there is nothing wrong with you. I do believe you are both smart and normal&#8230;and in fact you are just too good for the work-a-day world. Dear Very Worried, doth a bird not cry when it&#8217;s wings are clipped, when it is sentenced to a life of droll flightlessness? That bird, my friend, is like you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You don&#8217;t have to worry though, this is America! You don&#8217;t have to work, there are tons of other things you can do. You could go on welfare, or become a religious devotee, you could get on a reality tv show, you could beg. Really you can do anything you want in this grand country. In fact I recently saw two homeless people of unidentifiable gender making out in the park near my home. Romance might be on the horizon for you! This is very exciting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best to you,<br \/>\nPoor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, I want a new job but fear that the problem is that I don&#8217;t want any job. Could this be? I&#8217;m pretty smart and normal. Worried, Very Worried Dear Very Worried, I get this question often, and want to assure you that there is nothing wrong with you. I do believe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/monday-february-23rd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday, February 23rd&#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":[23,24,25],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-new-job","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}