{"id":422,"date":"2008-09-09T22:50:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2008-09-09T22:50:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:50:24","slug":"no-hands-no-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/no-hands-no-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"You say “stop!” and I say “go!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In between bouts of coughing and spitting gobs of semi-living tissue, I actually get some driving done.
\nToday I almost caused two accidents, both in roundabouts. The second one found me pressing the accelerator and the instructor standing on the brake.<\/p>\n

I might<\/em> have misjudged the speed and distance of a crappy Golf that was speeding, with dry mouth, heart pounding and slight tremors as a result. But with everything taken into account, I’d rather fuck up in a car with a double set of pedals than one without; hopefully I learned some sort of lesson.<\/p>\n

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My diaphragm and abdominal muscles are so fatigued by now that I can’t cough properly. I hem<\/em>, which is wholly unbecoming someone as goddamn manly as myself.<\/p>\n

I was reading up on tuberculosis, and found the expression “Spes phthisica” which denotes a condition believed peculiar to consumptives in which physical wasting led to euphoric flowering of the passionate and creative aspects of the soul.<\/em> The quote (and a very good essay on the subject) comes curtesy of Centers for Disease Control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In between bouts of coughing and spitting gobs of semi-living tissue, I actually get some driving done. Today I almost caused two accidents, both in roundabouts. The second one found me pressing the accelerator and the instructor standing on the brake. I might have misjudged the speed and distance of a crappy Golf that was … Continue reading You say “stop!” and I say “go!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,119,166,256],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","tag-bloody-handkerchief","tag-driving","tag-grass","tag-near-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}