{"id":289,"date":"2005-01-21T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/01\/21\/97e55e75-05fc-4fc4-ba98-0056500edf81\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:29:31","slug":"97e55e75-05fc-4fc4-ba98-0056500edf81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/97e55e75-05fc-4fc4-ba98-0056500edf81\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>An Open Letter<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dear Respiratory System,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really, really sorry for subjecting you to almost twenty years of smoking. No really. Now that I&#8217;m making a concerted effort to quit, do you have to continue to remind me in such an up-front and public way that you&#8217;ve been polluted? I understand that it hasn&#8217;t been easy, but really. The hacking and the coughing are really wearing thin.<\/p>\n<p>That never happened when I was smoking.<\/p>\n<p>No, that wasn&#8217;t a threat. I&#8217;m just saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Open Letter Dear Respiratory System, I&#8217;m really, really sorry for subjecting you to almost twenty years of smoking. No really. Now that I&#8217;m making a concerted effort to quit, do you have to continue to remind me in such an up-front and public way that you&#8217;ve been polluted? I understand that it hasn&#8217;t been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/97e55e75-05fc-4fc4-ba98-0056500edf81\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}