{"id":263,"date":"2006-01-02T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-02T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T18:19:09","slug":"response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email today from my brother in response to my post the other day.  I&#8217;m assuming he&#8217;d want this posted as the title to the email is: &#8220;your site didn&#8217;t allow me to post this but here is my response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>unaltered text from the email is below:<\/p>\n<p>WHAT?<\/p>\n<p>no, seriously, what the hell is all this?<br \/>\nwe didnt ask to have the dinner reschedualed, i had been asking mom for<br \/>\nWEEKS when the dinner would be, only to have it switched on US at the last<br \/>\nmoment.  which, BTW it did not happen at a good time for us anyway.  and as<br \/>\nfor ignored&#8230;&#8230;..you spent more time in that room than out of it.  i tried<br \/>\nto include you but how the hell can i do that when you were too sick to do<br \/>\nanything?  and no, it is not a part time job, do you want me to mail you<br \/>\ncopies of my paystubs showing all the overtime ive been racking up?<br \/>\nas for the lack of gifts&#8230;&#8230;..i had no chance to buy anything since the<br \/>\nwreck.  i love how you seem to know everything about my situation, but only<br \/>\ngot fed parts of the story.<br \/>\nas for free food, thats funny considering i purposely don&#8217;t eat at home as<br \/>\nmuch as i can.  but im sure you just chalk that up to my &#8220;teenage&#8221; antics.<\/p>\n<p>as for living at home, it has never been nor ever will be my intention to<br \/>\nstay here.  i dont like the situation any more than dad does.  and i do plan<br \/>\non moving out as soon as i repay my debts.<\/p>\n<p>yeah, i mentioned getting another cougar&#8230;.as just talk.  what is wrong<br \/>\nwith that?  if it fits within my budget to get a car that i actually like<br \/>\nthen what is wrong with that?  the chances of it happening might be slim,<br \/>\nbut then again, i dont remember some rule about not being allowed to have<br \/>\nwants&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>oh btw, Emily DOES give me rides.  virtually all of my trips to work and<br \/>\nhome have been from her.  the only times i get a ride from mom is when she<br \/>\noffers it.  and even then i try to find other ways.  but i suppose you never<br \/>\ngot any of those details.<\/p>\n<p>or how about the fact that i only moved down here in the first place at moms<br \/>\nurging, and i was living on my own and paying for all my own bills prior to<br \/>\nthe move.<\/p>\n<p>i cannot believe you actually think i want this situation.  the concept is<br \/>\nabsurd.<\/p>\n<p>as for listening to your songs, actually, i was trying to show them off.  i<br \/>\nhad been telling emily and her brother how good you were.<\/p>\n<p>and as for not saying goodbye&#8230;.i knew you were sick and didn&#8217;t want to<br \/>\ndisturb you.(you were hiding out in your old room).  and since when were we<br \/>\never that close?  how many times was christmas moved around to fit your<br \/>\nschedule?  how many times did you run off without even a word to me?  all<br \/>\nthe sudden im a bastard because i didnt say bye?!!  when have i ever gotten<br \/>\nthat courtesy from you?  jesus andrew when have we ever exchanged goodbyes?<br \/>\ndid it occur to you that maybe i left to go visit with emilys family?  its<br \/>\nnot like you would have prefered us being there anyway.  you came all that<br \/>\nway to see our parents, not me.<\/p>\n<p>but, im sure all this will fall on deaf ears.  you only see things the way<br \/>\nyou want to see them.  never let the facts or the truth get in the way of a<br \/>\n&#8220;jon is a bastard&#8221; tirade.<\/p>\n<p>i cant believe this from you though.  how would you like all your dirty<br \/>\nlaundry put on a public website like this?  where you seem to have some<br \/>\ndesire to voice all my percieved faults, you don&#8217;t see me blabbing  about<br \/>\nall the bad stuff you&#8217;ve done.  but then again i never claimed to be like<br \/>\nyou.<\/p>\n<p>there is so much more i could say, but its not worth it.<\/p>\n<p>you want a goodbye, here it is:  GOODBYE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email today from my brother in response to my post the other day. I&#8217;m assuming he&#8217;d want this posted as the title to the email is: &#8220;your site didn&#8217;t allow me to post this but here is my response.&#8221; unaltered text from the email is below: WHAT? no, seriously, what the hell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}