{"id":784,"date":"2011-10-30T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2011-11-10T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:26:12","slug":"bukowskis-depression-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Bukowski&#8217;s Depression Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned, Charles Bukowski was a sexist drunk with a knack for words. He was that big loud mouth at the end of the bar trying to pick up women while weaving an entertaining beer-induced commentary on, well, everything. I admit it: Sometimes it&#8217;s f***ing great to listen to that guy! I understand and appreciate his cult status even while I&#8217;m wincing and slamming his books shut (and then peeking back inside).<\/p>\n<p>But Bukowski is so right in this clip: Sometimes going to bed for three days is exactly what a human being needs.\u00c2\u00a0 How uncomfortable our culture is with indolence!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dNzzHjfNUE4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned, Charles Bukowski was a sexist drunk with a knack for words. He was that big loud mouth at the end of the bar trying to pick up women while weaving an entertaining beer-induced commentary on, well, everything. I admit it: Sometimes it&#8217;s f***ing great to listen to that guy! I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}