{"id":145,"date":"2007-03-06T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T19:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2007-12-09T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T20:51:46","slug":"im-a-lousy-pen-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m A Lousy Pen Pal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All of your replies have been 3 or 4 words. Why so reserved? Are you concerned that you might say the wrong thing and scare me off? Do you (inaccurately) assume that the acorn didn&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;t grow far from the tree? Are you not sure how to categorize me? Do you find conflict in what you think you know of me versus who I actually am? Do you not give a shit? Do you feel uneasy knowing that I have thrown away many offers in the adult business that most would dream to have? Is it that I have serious moral conflict with the business that destroyed so many? Is it that you improperly reported that my brother was killed because&#8230;.when we know that call for his death came from a temple? Is it that you reported that I died?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is because I write for a living and that leaves me drained. I&#8217;m not lengthy in my replies with anyone, even women I date&#8230;  Also, I have tendonitis in both elbows and I limit my time on the computer&#8230;  Also, I just feel overwhelmed writing my blogs etc, squeezing out a living, and I prefer to get away from the computer and read books and write books&#8230;  If you are ever in LA, I&#8217;d be happy to meet up with you and shmooze.  Chaim Amalek writes: &quot;Why not hire a Mexican to handle your correspondence? Quite a few are as literate as the average Anglo. Make Bush immigration policies work for you!&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill writes: All of your replies have been 3 or 4 words. Why so reserved? Are you concerned that you might say the wrong thing and scare me off? Do you (inaccurately) assume that the acorn didn&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;t grow far from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=145\">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":{"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-145","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\/145","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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}