{"id":3294,"date":"2009-10-21T19:32:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T00:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2009-10-21T19:32:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T00:32:33","slug":"the-rule-of-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"The Rule of Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I arrived at a point where I decided I needed to  back down the spleen. I was imagining the death of dozens of people at a time, sometimes before breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>So i invoked what I now call the Rule of Five. After I have wished death on, or begun to plot the death of, five people, I quit for the day. I turn off talk radio and stop having conversations that involve politics.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, still, that happens before I get out of bed, watching the TV news.<\/p>\n<p>It makes it less likely that I will start stockpiling rope.  Try it, it helps.  My imaginary body count was often getting into the 60&#8217;s before I got to work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I arrived at a point where I decided I needed to back down the spleen. I was imagining the death of dozens of people at a time, sometimes before breakfast. So i invoked what I now call the Rule of Five. After I have wished death on, or begun to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}