{"id":73,"date":"2014-05-31T17:06:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tromador.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2014-05-31T17:06:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T17:06:35","slug":"closer-and-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Closer and closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam pops up, as it does, with all of the pretty shiny things it&#8217;s advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I wanted any of them, but it made me think of games I might want and how as time passes I won&#8217;t be able to afford stuff like that any more, nor upgrades\/repairs for my PC when they are needed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a gamer, I&#8217;ve always been a gamer and over the next year or so, I can only see that part of my life being eaten away, leaving a very large hole.<\/p>\n<p>3 months and counting.<\/p>\n<p>The form for my PIP application landed yesterday. I&#8217;ve flicked through it, but I can&#8217;t face it at this moment. The world is being all kinds of dark and miserable right now &#8211; so dealing with my shit is difficult. Hopefully soon, any of the friends who I am supposed to be doing stuff with today will show up and I can get on with that stuff, which will help distract me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam pops up, as it does, with all of the pretty shiny things it&#8217;s advertising. Not that I wanted any of them, but it made me think of games I might want and how as time passes I won&#8217;t be able to afford stuff like that any more, nor upgrades\/repairs for my PC when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}