{"id":1983,"date":"2006-12-27T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2006\/12\/sometimes-you-just-have-to-swear\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:51","slug":"sometimes-you-just-have-to-swear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2006\/12\/sometimes-you-just-have-to-swear.html","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You Just Have to Swear"},"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:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RZLtJcxol2I\/AAAAAAAAACw\/LRfCGv3Fwkk\/s1600-h\/CaptainHaddock.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RZLtJcxol2I\/AAAAAAAAACw\/LRfCGv3Fwkk\/s400\/CaptainHaddock.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Have you ever felt that the only appropriate thing to do is swear, but the situation just wouldn\u2019t allow for it? 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