{"id":7364,"date":"2013-08-09T19:05:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T23:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2013-08-09T19:05:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T23:05:53","slug":"the-end-of-retrobruxist-fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/the-end-of-retrobruxist-fridays\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Retrobruxist Fridays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a terrible day. In fact, it&#8217;s been a terrible week.<\/p>\n<p>So I did what anyone would do: I googled &#8216;Amy Scott mugshots&#8217; and reveled for a moment in the notion that, as bad as shit is right now, at least I&#8217;m not one of those Amy Scotts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7366\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/amy-scott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7366\" alt=\"amy-scott\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/amy-scott.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/amy-scott.jpg 270w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/amy-scott-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Girl, I&#8217;d call yours a *smug*shot. &lt;high-five&gt;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7367\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Amy-Scott-mugshot-26907800.400x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7367\" alt=\"Amy-Scott-mugshot-26907800.400x800\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Amy-Scott-mugshot-26907800.400x800.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Amy-Scott-mugshot-26907800.400x800.jpg 400w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Amy-Scott-mugshot-26907800.400x800-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dying to know what her shirt says&#8230; If it weren&#8217;t for WHAT, then WHAT?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7368\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AS-mugshot-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7368\" alt=\"AS mugshot 1\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AS-mugshot-1.jpeg\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AS-mugshot-1.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AS-mugshot-1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OH LORD JESUS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I started Retrobruxist Friday a year ago, and now I&#8217;m done. This was fun, but I don&#8217;t think I have more than one good post per week in the archives, so.<\/p>\n<p>This last round is all good ones though:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three years<\/strong>\u00a0ago, I wrote a letter to my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/dear-grandma\/\">grandma<\/a>,\u00a0one heck of a woman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two years<\/strong>\u00a0ago, I learned in a very difficult way exactly what\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/worry\/\">fight-or-flight<\/a>\u00a0meant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One year<\/strong>\u00a0ago, I got\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/mostly-naked-on-the-internet\/\">mostly naked on the internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What you might have missed on Fat CrossFitter: I wrote\u00a0what I thought was a funny story about how I became a stark-raving-mad, premenstrual mess who made histrionic mountain insults out of perfectly reasonable, helpful, and well-intentioned molehill comments, but it got interpreted by people I care about in a whole nother way, so I took down the post.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that I can&#8217;t write about people anymore&#8212;not my students because I&#8217;ll get fired, or people I know because I might hurt their feelings, or online dating prospects because I&#8217;m <em>never putting myself through that bullshit again<\/em>. So I think we all know what that means.<\/p>\n<p>I should probably get another foster dog.<\/p>\n<p>Comparatively (and by that I mean, at least we&#8217;re not in prison) happy Retrobruxist Friday, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a terrible day. In fact, it&#8217;s been a terrible week. So I did what anyone would do: I googled &#8216;Amy Scott mugshots&#8217; and reveled for a moment in the notion that, as bad as shit is right now, at least I&#8217;m not one of those Amy Scotts. I started Retrobruxist Friday a year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/the-end-of-retrobruxist-fridays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The End of Retrobruxist Fridays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animules","category-call-me-crazy","category-fambly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7372,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}