{"id":652,"date":"2006-08-17T00:37:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T04:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=652"},"modified":"2007-07-31T02:53:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T06:53:33","slug":"fill-in-the-blanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Fill in the blanks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever get the feeling that you&#8217;re someone&#8217;s experiment? A lab rat &#8212; or mouse (is that more dignified?). You might have an elaborate thing set up for you, and you think the whole world&#8217;s yours to explore but one day you realize you&#8217;re just going in circles &#8212; or something. You&#8217;re still trapped. You&#8217;re just a blank for someone else to fill. And everyone, I mean everyone, has got an opinion. And amid the clutter and the noise, you can&#8217;t notice if you ever had one yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world needs\/ought to have more &lt;blank&gt; like you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>people<\/li>\n<li>guys\/men<\/li>\n<li>doctors<\/li>\n<li>teachers<\/li>\n<li>politicians<\/li>\n<li>Muslims<\/li>\n<li>professors<\/li>\n<li>students<\/li>\n<li>activisits<\/li>\n<li>lawyers<\/li>\n<li>artists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that goes on, and on, till the break of dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Not to say, of course, that the flip side doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world needs\/ought to have less &lt;blank&gt; like you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>jerks<\/li>\n<li>pricks<\/li>\n<li>self-righteous pricks<\/li>\n<li>arrogant pricks<\/li>\n<li>assholes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pick one, or pick a few (so long as they don&#8217;t contradict &#8212; ah heck, even if they do, lab rat after all). Feel free to add your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever get the feeling that you&#8217;re someone&#8217;s experiment? A lab rat &#8212; or mouse (is that more dignified?). You might have an elaborate thing set up for you, and you think the whole world&#8217;s yours to explore but one day you realize you&#8217;re just going in circles &#8212; or something. You&#8217;re still trapped. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}