{"id":173,"date":"2006-04-23T22:31:19","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T02:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alison.com\/wordpress\/?p=173"},"modified":"2006-10-13T22:42:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T02:42:56","slug":"yes-its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/04\/23\/yes-its-been-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It’s Been a While."},"content":{"rendered":"

So sue me.  Oh, wait, you can’t.  That would be frivolous.  Sort of like Linda Calbi blaming the hospital for her son’s death.<\/a>  Forget the fact that she had a violent history, her husband had tried and failed to keep her kids away from her, she was drunk and high and beat the kid up and kicked him in the neck, and >he< called the ambulance for himself while she was becoming more and more oblivious, it’s the hospital’s fault he died. <\/p>\n

In other areas of frivolity, we have some funny financial decisions going on in the Senate.  Apparently, it’s more important to buy new helicopters<\/a> that have a history of killing the people inside them and taking off on their own, and which won’t be ready until 2008, if then, if they work out the design kinks, than to provide troops with equipment that will protect them now.  This bill will, however, protect the jobs of several senators whose states manufacture the aircraft by funneling money into their districts, so clearly it is not frivolous at all.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So sue me.  Oh, wait, you can’t.  That would be frivolous.  Sort of like Linda Calbi blaming the hospital for her son’s death.  Forget the fact that she had a violent history, her husband had tried and failed to keep her kids away from her, she was drunk and high and beat the kid up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-rants"],"yoast_head":"\nYes, It's Been a While. - Alison Blogs Here<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/04\/23\/yes-its-been-a-while\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alison\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/04\/23\/yes-its-been-a-while\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/04\/23\/yes-its-been-a-while\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alison\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/12f38319b03ba31c0f25a4f81c830ce7\"},\"headline\":\"Yes, It’s Been a While.\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-04-24T02:31:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2006-10-14T02:42:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/04\/23\/yes-its-been-a-while\/\"},\"wordCount\":199,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/12f38319b03ba31c0f25a4f81c830ce7\"},\"keywords\":[\"Rants\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/04\/23\/yes-its-been-a-while\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/04\/23\/yes-its-been-a-while\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/04\/23\/yes-its-been-a-while\/\",\"name\":\"Yes, It's Been a While. - 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