{"id":23635,"date":"2021-08-31T15:17:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23635"},"modified":"2021-08-31T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:48:36","slug":"thresholds-of-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23635","title":{"rendered":"Thresholds of ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are all capable of acting in a way that others consider ridiculous. Sometimes we just lose it, or sometimes we have a view of reality that is, to put it politely, severely warped.<\/p>\n<p>But every once in a while I encountered somebody whose reality is so outrageously off of the reasonable consensus that I am not even upset. I just look on in astonishment and say my own version of &#8220;There but for the grace of God go I.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all capable of acting in a way that others consider ridiculous. Sometimes we just lose it, or sometimes we have a view of reality that is, to put it politely, severely warped. But every once in a while I encountered somebody whose reality is so outrageously off of the reasonable consensus that I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23635\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thresholds of ridiculous&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23638,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23635\/revisions\/23638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}