{"id":6979,"date":"2011-01-27T03:12:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=6979"},"modified":"2011-01-27T03:12:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:12:35","slug":"withstanding-irritants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/withstanding-irritants\/","title":{"rendered":"Withstanding Irritants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s not some troll taunting me fives times a day, it&#8217;s some guy threatening to sue me, or a new stack of unpayable bills or a photo like this one, of the Man Repeller&#8217;s friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/friends-of-the-man-repeller.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6980\" title=\"friends of the man repeller\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/friends-of-the-man-repeller.png?resize=304%2C439\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/friends-of-the-man-repeller.png?w=304&amp;ssl=1 304w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/friends-of-the-man-repeller.png?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope David Carlo Photography doesn&#8217;t mind me borrowing his picture here. It helps to illustrate why I don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; the Man Repeller and why I feel more and more like a stranger in a strange land.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to counter these feelings of existential malaise is a sedative and a long thoughtful look at <strong>Godfrey Gao<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Godfrey_Gao1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6982\" title=\"Godfrey_Gao1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Godfrey_Gao1.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Godfrey_Gao1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Godfrey_Gao1.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is set to be the first Asian male supermodel. He is 6&#8217;4&#8243; and loves to cook.&nbsp;\u00a0 Let&#8217;s all forget our troubles for a moment and just be present, ahem. I know Godfrey would want that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s not some troll taunting me fives times a day, it&#8217;s some guy threatening to sue me, or a new stack of unpayable bills or a photo like this one, of the Man Repeller&#8217;s friends. I hope David Carlo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/withstanding-irritants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[943,433,596],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1Oz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}