{"id":137621,"date":"2021-03-05T05:25:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137621"},"modified":"2021-03-05T05:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:31:25","slug":"the-halfway-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137621","title":{"rendered":"The Halfway House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2021\/02\/26\/steven-pressfield\/\">Author Steven Pressfield tells author Tim Ferriss<\/a> about his time working in a halfway house for people released from mental asylums: &#8220;They weren&#8217;t crazy at all. They were the smart people who had seen through the bullshit and because of that they couldn&#8217;t function in the world. They couldn&#8217;t hold a job because they couldn&#8217;t take the bullshit. That&#8217;s how they wound up in institutions. The greater society thought, &#8216;These people are rejects. They can&#8217;t fit in.&#8217; But to my mind, they were the people who saw through everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just realized the only job I\u2019m ever going to get again is pirate and\/or vaccine-passport forger<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Godward Podcast (@Godward16) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Godward16\/status\/1367279291315212289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Steven Pressfield tells author Tim Ferriss about his time working in a halfway house for people released from mental asylums: &#8220;They weren&#8217;t crazy at all. They were the smart people who had seen through the bullshit and because of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137621\">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":[26369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137621","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=137621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137624,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137621\/revisions\/137624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}