{"id":1427,"date":"2015-12-27T23:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T04:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2023-05-29T01:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:22:46","slug":"smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/12\/27\/smoking","title":{"rendered":"Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people smoke? I&#8217;ve never understood it. It&#8217;s nasty.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I just made it two days of picking on vices like I&#8217;m up on some kind of elevated equine. I&#8217;m a snobbish asshole, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>But still. Setting aside how detestable anti-smoking campaigns are, why the hell does anyone smoke? It&#8217;s expensive. It&#8217;s deadly. It&#8217;s gross to oneself and others.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, they&#8217;re addicted and it calms them down. Fine. But why does anyone start? What&#8217;s the appeal? I see smokers having to go out and smoke in all kinds of unpleasant weather. Getting pulled away from some other activity because nicotine cravings.<\/p>\n<p>We all know this. Everything I&#8217;m saying is obnoxious and just judgmental shit smokers are sick of. I don&#8217;t have much of a point. Just find the self-destruction puzzling.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people smoke? I&#8217;ve never understood it. It&#8217;s nasty. Okay, I just made it two days of picking on vices like I&#8217;m up on some kind of elevated equine. I&#8217;m a snobbish asshole, I guess. But still. Setting aside how detestable anti-smoking campaigns are, why the hell does anyone smoke? It&#8217;s expensive. It&#8217;s deadly. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/12\/27\/smoking\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smoking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-the-hell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}