{"id":723,"date":"2007-08-12T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T04:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:03:26","slug":"i-have-no-compassion-for-drug-addicts-alcoholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"I Have No Compassion For Drug Addicts &#038; Alcoholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only have contempt. If you want to get sober, good for you, but don&#8217;t look to me for support. If you want to practice unsafe sex and catch a deadly disease (physical or spiritual), I have contempt for you.<\/p>\n<p>I reserve my compassion for people who suffer out of no fault of their own.<\/p>\n<p>I have contempt for people who expect a free ride, who expect the government to legislate away their problems, who sue over the ordinary hardships of life. I&#8217;m sick of people who expect their employers to care for them, to give them special treatment when they&#8217;re hurting, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Burning-Down-My-Masters-House\/dp\/1597775274\/ref=sr_1_16\/102-0972937-2605743?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1187021724&amp;sr=1-16\">Jayson Blair&#8217;s memoir<\/a> and it has set me off on this rage to say that I don&#8217;t care for people such as him who sabotage their own lives and needlessly hurt the innocent.<\/p>\n<p>I too would like a free ride through life. My capacity for self-pity and exploitation of others is infinite. I have no sympathy for this large part of myself either.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only have contempt. If you want to get sober, good for you, but don&#8217;t look to me for support. If you want to practice unsafe sex and catch a deadly disease (physical or spiritual), I have contempt for you. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=723\">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-723","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\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}