{"id":272,"date":"2019-11-16T22:11:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/204.48.22.247\/?p=272"},"modified":"2021-06-30T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:07:38","slug":"washing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Washing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maria Peregolise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In National Lampoon&#8217;s Christmas Vacation, when Clark can&#8217;t get the lights to work, his daughter says defensively, &#8220;He worked really hard, Grandpa.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandpa replies, &#8220;So do washing machines.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The compulsion to purge one\u2019s experiences through journaling is understandable. But why share it with everyone else? Why not just put it on a shelf and get on with your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s because, the idea that one\u2019s lifetime was spent under Yoda\u2019s tutelage, when Yoda is a Muppet and The Force does not actually exist, likens one\u2019s efforts to those of a very busy washing machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washing machines work really hard too &#8212; sitting in their own little room, spinning and going nowhere for years upon years, while real life passes by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It must have been for something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If not for a God, then for the sake of drafting a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Peregolise In National Lampoon&#8217;s Christmas Vacation, when Clark can&#8217;t get the lights to work, his daughter says defensively, &#8220;He worked really hard, Grandpa.&#8221; Grandpa replies, &#8220;So do washing machines.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}