{"id":13961,"date":"2009-12-09T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13961"},"modified":"2009-12-09T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:27:42","slug":"the-disposable-single-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13961","title":{"rendered":"The Disposable Single Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a book about mercenaries in Iraq called <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bigboyrules.com\/\">Big Boy Rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On page 83, the author Steve Fainaru writes: &#8220;Sometimes Cote would say it didn&#8217;t really matter if something happened to him, because he didn&#8217;t have a wife, or kids, or anyone he was responsible for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think almost every single man feels this frequently &#8212; disposable. It makes your hold on life more tenuous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a book about mercenaries in Iraq called Big Boy Rules. On page 83, the author Steve Fainaru writes: &#8220;Sometimes Cote would say it didn&#8217;t really matter if something happened to him, because he didn&#8217;t have a wife, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28],"tags":[20328,20331,20330,20329],"class_list":["post-13961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-sex","tag-mercenaries-in-iraq","tag-reading-a-book","tag-single-man","tag-steve-fainaru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961","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=13961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13962,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions\/13962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}