{"id":3606,"date":"2020-10-31T16:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2020-10-31T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T21:03:21","slug":"halloween-2020-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=3606","title":{"rendered":"Halloween 2020, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;m even still blogging.  Bored, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose one could get a sick thrill out of documenting the death of a country, or something.  Yeah, that might be it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least there is still something of a community, here.  Count your blessings.  Not too many heroin addicts dying on the street corners in broad daylight like there are in other parts of majority-white US.  Yet.  Though I see more of that stuff now, more than I used to, certainly.  I guess the relative wealth of this area has kept it insulated from too much of that.<\/p>\n<p>I do see heroin addicts now, though.  I mean, in other parts of town, poorer parts, where they used to be none, when I was a kid.  The death of the United States is like the slow erosion of a continent.  It happens through years, though it&#8217;s effects are unmistakable and permanent when done.  It&#8217;s like some kind of creeping, omnipotent death, nipping at my heels.<\/p>\n<p>There really is nothing more awful or sad than seeing the heroin addicts on the streets where the businesses used to be in the neighboring town, here.  It&#8217;s&#8230; awful.  They look like the walking dead.  Nobody who values their lives goes there at night, anymore.  It&#8217;s like a zombie infestation.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, you can get heroin in my neighborhood too, but it&#8217;s not like that.  <\/p>\n<p>Oof, speaking of which&#8230; yeah.  Ugh, ow.  I CAN&#8217;T give in, lol.  Yeesh.  Oof, I CAN&#8217;T.  I mean I want to, so badly, but no, I CAN&#8217;T.  No, nope, no, never, I can&#8217;t.  No way, no how will I even consider it.  No way. No way, no way, no way.  Never.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.  Well&#8230; wait, what was I thinking about?  LOL.  Oh yeah, death, or something.  Heroin.  Right.  So uh&#8230;. yeah.<\/p>\n<p>WHEW.  Jeebus, I seriously shouldn&#8217;t have even though of it, I need another hit.  Damn it, FUCK.  I had this great train of thought going and then&#8230; BAM.  Ughk, I&#8217;m shaking, again.  Oof, so dumb.  Throat is closing up, skin gets&#8230; paler.  Eyes scream, nerves turn to jelly, horrible twisting pain in my stomach.  A hit WOULD calm me.  It would.  And make me feel loved, again.  Like&#8230; a warming hug, all over inside of me.  It would be heaven, so much.  I just need ONE, that&#8217;s it.  Only one.  I NEED IT.  SO MUCH.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, ugh.  Oof.  OW.  I mean, it&#8217;s just so wonderful, isn&#8217;t it?  IDK what I was saying, earlier.  Maybe I&#8217;M the dumbass, lol.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, woah.  A hit would be so good, right now.  Like, so good.  So pleasant, so beautiful.  It would make me whole, again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m&#8230; getting one?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8230; should.  Just once.  No harm.  Just once.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Um&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I need to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;m even still blogging. Bored, I guess. I suppose one could get a sick thrill out of documenting the death of a country, or something. Yeah, that might be it. Well, at least there is still something of a community, here. Count your blessings. Not too many heroin addicts dying on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}