{"id":1096,"date":"2015-06-29T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2015-06-29T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:08:26","slug":"xirt-yoself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/xirt-yoself\/","title":{"rendered":"Xirt yo’self\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a rabbit on each shoulder. I know what you’re thinking: “One is good one is evil.” But you’re wrong. They’re both evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"rabbits\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They are both white rabbits and they get a lot of mileage out of this. There is a certain trust engendered in the white rabbit by society, as people are trained from an early age to follow them wherever they may lead without asking any questions, even if we all end up in a bunker far underground.<\/p>\n

It makes me hopping mad!<\/p>\n

But I always feel I am running late and that time is running out and I need to hop to it.<\/p>\n

And it does nothing for my nerves, these rabbits, hopping up and down on my shoulders, as if every day and night were a rabbit holiday.<\/p>\n

Do not even get me started about the bird on my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a rabbit on each shoulder. I know what you’re thinking: “One is good one is evil.” But you’re wrong. They’re both evil. They are both white rabbits and they get a lot of mileage out of this. There is a certain trust engendered in the white rabbit by society, as people are trained from an early age to follow them wherever they may lead without asking any questions, even if we all end up in a bunker far underground. It makes me hopping mad! But I always feel I am running late and that time is running out...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[102,101,103],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-writing","tag-birds","tag-rabbits","tag-xirt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-hG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1723,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/rabbit-fears\/","url_meta":{"origin":1096,"position":0},"title":"Rabbit Fears","author":"David Raffin","date":"October 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\"If you were a rabbit, in, say, 1956, let's say you would spend most of your time readjusting your rabbit ears. 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