{"id":99,"date":"2006-02-08T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.ragedied.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2006-02-08T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T21:07:20","slug":"thoughts-on-being-expendable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/2006\/02\/08\/thoughts-on-being-expendable\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on being expendable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This song came into my head on the news of loosing my part-time gig at the end of march.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you ever seen an idealist<br \/>\nWith grey hairs on his head<br \/>\nOr successful men who keep in touch<br \/>\nWith unsuccessful friends?<br \/>\nYou only think you do<br \/>\nI could have sworn I saw it too<br \/>\nBut as it turns out,<br \/>\nIt was just a clever ad for cigarettes<\/p>\n<p>Cause if it isn&#8217;t making dollars<br \/>\nThen it isn&#8217;t making sense<br \/>\nIf you aren&#8217;t moving units<br \/>\nThen you&#8217;re not worth the expense<br \/>\nIf you really want to make it<br \/>\nYou had best remember this<br \/>\nIf it isn&#8217;t penetration<br \/>\nThen it isn&#8217;t worth a kiss<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so sorry, sir,<br \/>\nBut you did not quite make the cut this time<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d appriciate it if you&#8217;d get<br \/>\nYour stuff all out by five<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t take it personal<br \/>\nEveryone knows you did your best<br \/>\nIf it makes it easier,<br \/>\nYou should look at things from our perspective<\/p>\n<p>Cause if it isn&#8217;t making dollars<br \/>\nThen it isn&#8217;t making sense<br \/>\nIf you aren&#8217;t moving units<br \/>\nThen you&#8217;re not worth the expense<br \/>\nIf you really want to make it<br \/>\nYou had best remember this<br \/>\nIf it isn&#8217;t penetration<br \/>\nThen it isn&#8217;t worth a kiss<\/p>\n<p><em>Penetration by Pedro the Lion from the Control album<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>for some reason that made me think about this quote from Shakespeare&#8217;s Caesar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves,that we are underlings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song came into my head on the news of loosing my part-time gig at the end of march. Have you ever seen an idealist With grey hairs on his head Or successful men who keep in touch With unsuccessful friends? You only think you do I could have sworn I saw it too But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pNDf-1B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}