{"id":10038,"date":"2009-10-13T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2009-10-13T18:47:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T01:47:58","slug":"the-last-amend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10038\/the-last-amend\/","title":{"rendered":"The (last) Amend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Notion<\/strong><\/p>\n

In my dream I’m always gasping for air; as if the trillion or so cubic inches of ozone I’ve already blown through in my lifetime somehow counts for nothing.\u00a0 I awake, step over the dog, and scramble downstairs in my boxers in search of a physical remedy to a metaphysical dilemma. Something is bothering me and I can’t quite place my finger on it. Life is short and, on this crisp autumn eve, I’m clearly too underdressed to even be considering my last breath.\u00a0 Our fifteen-year old cat follows close behind, his own mousy demons no doubt,\u00a0 in tow as well.<\/p>\n

‘Dear God, please don’t let me die with money in my portion of the Charles Schwab account,’<\/em> I think as I root through the herbal medicine cabinet,\u00a0 next to the dishes, above the microwave.\u00a0 ‘That’s what the Prudential life insurance policy in the house safe is for,’<\/em> I obsess. It’s an odd recurring thought, I realize. Just being forthcoming.<\/p>\n

We keep no real drugs in our house.<\/p>\n

Ginkgo Biloba, Paranil, Senna, Licorice Root. Green Tea, White Tea, Black Tea…where the fck is the Alka Seltzer?<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the years I’ve developed an internal ON\/OFF switch of sorts; a requirement for any man whose livelihood\u00a0 simultaneously hinges on rejection yet somehow also depends on the act of a total stranger purchasing something of considerable value; house, condo, etc…. every month. It’s an Acceptance<\/em> thing, I’ve learned. This emotional circuit breaker has, for a long time,\u00a0 assisted me in affairs of the heart,\u00a0 finance,\u00a0 most of\u00a0 the Deadly Sins<\/em>—Fear, Greed, Anger, etc… not to mention social and personal guilt.\u00a0 And in case you haven’t\u00a0 been following the box scores at home this season,\u00a0 I’ve been in the OFF mode for a while now.<\/p>\n

thankyouverymuchhaveanicedaybiteme….next
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Over time I’ve learned to appreciate\u00a0 the next ‘Next<\/em>‘\u00a0 in life—I just haven’t learned not<\/em> to\u00a0 eat Mexican food before retiring for the evening or found a way to avoid the night scares that have startled me ever since that stupid monster began squatting in my childhood closet at 39 Vineyard Road in Levittown.\u00a0 And as my Life<\/em> flickers before me this particular night, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Notion In my dream I’m always gasping for air; as if the trillion or so cubic inches of ozone I’ve already blown through in my lifetime somehow counts for nothing.\u00a0 I awake, step over the dog, and scramble downstairs in my boxers in search of a physical remedy to a metaphysical dilemma. Something is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disintermediation","category-investment","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10054,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions\/10054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}