{"id":2945,"date":"2024-12-22T22:06:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joieart.thatonedomain.com\/?page_id=2945"},"modified":"2025-02-09T20:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:05:47","slug":"alcohol-abuse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/?page_id=2945","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Abuse-PP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Alcohol Abuse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sitting on white carpet<br>in one of those <em>cookie cutter mansions<\/em><br>under the quiet witness of<br>formal, cathedral ceilings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An uncomfortably intimate setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly, a pull-back car belonging to<br>the resident toddler is discovered<br>between the couch cushions,<br>removed and placed on the coffee table<br>directly in front of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I welcome the acceptable distraction,<br>and help myself to picking it up<br>for a better look, successfully<br>keeping me disengaged from further small talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seizing a moment of self indulgence,<br>I pull back and it let go,<br>blissfully unaware of something called<br><em>centripetal force<\/em><br>as mayhem unfolds in motion<br>slow enough to see everything happening, and<br>fast enough to do absolutely nothing about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I silently watch in horror as the car careens across<br>the glass coffee table, narrowly missing<br>three loitering wine glasses<br>but takes out a fourth,<br>causing Dexter-worthy impact splatter of<br>2003<em> Truchard Estate Tempranillo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hostess springs into action<br>before the flood gates of my embarrassment<br>burst open, assuring me everything<br>will come out with Oxi Clean,<br>and all evidence is erased<br>from my open and shut case<br>of alcohol abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol Abuse I\u2019m sitting on white carpetin one of those cookie cutter mansionsunder the quiet witness offormal, cathedral ceilings. An uncomfortably intimate setting. Suddenly, a pull-back car belonging tothe resident toddler is discoveredbetween the couch cushions,removed and placed on the coffee tabledirectly in front of me. I welcome the acceptable distraction,and help myself to picking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/?page_id=2945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alcohol Abuse-PP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2945","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2945\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joiearnold.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}