{"id":1871,"date":"2007-08-28T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/08\/aint-life-like-that\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:34","slug":"aint-life-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/08\/aint-life-like-that.html","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t Life Like That?"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RtR1L_yvJsI\/AAAAAAAAATs\/qvTQKBthnW0\/s1600-h\/smack+someone.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RtR1L_yvJsI\/AAAAAAAAATs\/qvTQKBthnW0\/s400\/smack+someone.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><em>thanks to the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/theworsthorse.net\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Worst Horse<\/em><\/a><em> for this bit of wisdom<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-1593903641957825436?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thanks to the Worst Horse for this bit of wisdom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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