{"id":123877,"date":"2018-10-07T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T22:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123877"},"modified":"2018-10-08T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T23:42:06","slug":"the-dragnet-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123877","title":{"rendered":"The Dragnet Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg writes: <\/p>\n<p>Hi Luke, as you know I&#8217;ve been tuning back into your site lately. <\/p>\n<p>A feature I enjoy is what I call your \u201cDragnet Series.\u201d  You drive around Los Angeles sometimes featuring yourself and sometimes the streets you&#8217;re driving down. I kind of like the never-ending s\u00e9ance you have with yourself expounding a philosophy that is vaguely a combo of 12-step programs and Jewish stuff about \u201cthe community\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAKu3iWW8UQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was struck by something in your tone in \u201cVulnerability.\u201d I realized that you sounded exactly like a lot of guys I have known who were divorced after 10 or 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly they are unsure of themselves. They start musing about their relationships with other people in the world. They&#8217;re temporarily at sea. They no longer have their feet firmly planted.  They make assertions, have imponderable questions, grab ideas from self-help books, etc. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I get a kick out of your ruminations and I appreciate being introduced to different random streets in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>I think you should start by saying,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the city. Los Angeles, California. A lot of the people here are decent. Sometimes they fall beneath my moral standards. That&#8217;s where I come in. Luke Ford, moral leader and arbiter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a world of cynicism and superficiality one man still tries to understand life&#8217;s imponderable questions.<\/p>\n<p>Tune into Dragnet.<\/p>\n<p>Luke, you have not made a secret about considering marriage as a positive step.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time a few months ago a wise lady explained how a wife would basically force you to give up blogging. She recommended that you forget the wife and continue blogging.<\/p>\n<p>Following on my last email I would have to say that maybe the best thing would have been for you to have married and eventually divorced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg writes: Hi Luke, as you know I&#8217;ve been tuning back into your site lately. A feature I enjoy is what I call your \u201cDragnet Series.\u201d You drive around Los Angeles sometimes featuring yourself and sometimes the streets you&#8217;re driving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123879,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123877\/revisions\/123879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}