{"id":13966,"date":"2022-08-26T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13966"},"modified":"2022-08-26T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T13:59:56","slug":"no-promises-i-wrote-about-aa-and-sister-booze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2022\/08\/no-promises-i-wrote-about-aa-and-sister-booze.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Promises&#8221;: I wrote about AA and Sister Booze"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for Plough:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alcoholism often reveals itself first in broken promises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph--cap\"><span class=\"small-caps\">If you are lucky<\/span>, these are promises to yourself. <em>I really need to cut back. Jesus, I\u2019m never gonna do THAT again. I\u2019m just going to have one last time\u00a0\u2013 the Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles\u00a0\u2013 and then I\u2019m going to stop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some of these promises are unspoken: the <em>I would never<\/em>s. But one of the most common experiences of addiction is learning that you\u2019re capable of much more than you\u2019ve ever realized. You can do anything! Nothing can stop you! You won\u2019t like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plough.com\/en\/topics\/justice\/culture-of-life\/no-promises\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for Plough: Alcoholism often reveals itself first in broken promises. If you are lucky, these are promises to yourself. I really need to cut back. Jesus, I\u2019m never gonna do THAT again. I\u2019m just going to have one last time\u00a0\u2013 the Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles\u00a0\u2013 and then I\u2019m going to stop. Some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,177],"tags":[292,52,55],"class_list":["post-13966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mackerel-snapping","category-self-obsessed","category-too-much-is-never-enough","tag-i-believe-in-ecstasy","tag-if-whiskey-were-a-woman-id-be-married-for-sure","tag-prayers-to-ven-matt-talbot"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;No Promises&quot;: I wrote about AA and Sister Booze<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"for Plough: Alcoholism often reveals itself first in broken promises. 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