{"id":2536,"date":"2021-01-21T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/better-gaslighting-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:00:17","slug":"better-gaslighting-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/better-gaslighting-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Better gaslighting on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you think we have it bad now? Do you understand that rooms used to be commonly gaslit? Rooms. Rooms. After dark your sitting room didn\u2019t know whether it was coming or going.
Now that no one has a sitting room anymore every room is standing room only.
Whither the vestibule?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The economy is so diverse it includes the little piggy who goes to market AND the little piggy who has none, who is there to make the piggies in the middle \u201cf-uncomfortable.\u201d
The little piggy who goes to market blames it all on government pork, of course.
The swine.
The radical little piggy front has been infiltrated by the pigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jimmy Dean is people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man is only the measure of all things because people developed a measuring system. But there are competing systems, and they are incompatible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you think we have it bad now? Do you understand that rooms used to be commonly gaslit? Rooms. Rooms. After dark your sitting room didn\u2019t know whether it was coming or going.Now that no one has a sitting room anymore every room is standing room only.Whither the vestibule? The economy is so diverse it includes the little piggy who goes to market AND the little piggy who has none, who is there to make the piggies in the middle \u201cf-uncomfortable.\u201dThe little piggy who goes to market blames it all on government pork, of course.The swine.The radical little piggy front...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[188,127,121,147,167,150,152,64],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-fable","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-politics","tag-satire","tag-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-EU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":428,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/the-existential-hotel\/","url_meta":{"origin":2536,"position":0},"title":"The existential hotel","author":"David Raffin","date":"September 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In the existential hotel are two rooms with an adjoining door. 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