{"id":161879,"date":"2015-03-27T07:35:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T07:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/27\/eatprayvalkyrie-kaijuvsgiantrobotsvsme\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T15:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:19:40","slug":"eatprayvalkyrie-kaijuvsgiantrobotsvsme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/27\/eatprayvalkyrie-kaijuvsgiantrobotsvsme\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-161879 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/27\/eatprayvalkyrie-kaijuvsgiantrobotsvsme\/attachment\/161880\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_n5u7yjumjN1r35sxko1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_n5u7yjumjN1r35sxko1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_n5u7yjumjN1r35sxko1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eatprayvalkyrie.tumblr.com\/post\/112630088127\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">eatprayvalkyrie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaijuvsgiantrobotsvsme.tumblr.com\/post\/105766099470\/ripplesfromawaterlily-fuck-me-barnes\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kaijuvsgiantrobotsvsme<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripplesfromawaterlily.tumblr.com\/post\/105172301218\/fuck-me-barnes-tessalynn-a-snippet-from-an\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ripplesfromawaterlily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fuck-me-barnes.tumblr.com\/post\/94316294377\/tessalynn-a-snippet-from-an-article-on\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">fuck-me-barnes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tessalynn.tumblr.com\/post\/86237411107\/a-snippet-from-an-article-on-huffington-post-about\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">tessalynn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A snippet from an article on Huffington Post about what it means to be working poor.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty spot on\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I got into an argument today with someone who is a landlord, and they were outraged, outraged, to find that their evicted tenants owned an Xbox 360. Never mind that the console was ten years old and worth perhaps $50 on Craigslist, they were outraged that their evicted tenants did not sell it, along with the very clothes on their back, to pay their back rent. I tried to explain to him that when you are $1800 in back rent, $50 isn\u2019t even a dent in that debt. Why bother? Why bother selling that $50 item if it isn\u2019t going to get you any less evicted? If it\u2019s not going to save you, you\u2019ll hold on to it. Money becomes meaningless when you\u2019ll never have enough to hold onto. You just let it flow like water through your hands. It\u2019s all gone anyways, no matter what you do. It was gone before it ever touched you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The other day I got very mad at someone because their justification of why a family didn\u2019t deserve their council house was because they had decorated the front of their house with xmas lights. DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO LIVE WITH NO SMALL PLEASURES AT ALL?!?!? DO YOU REALLY?!?!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is one of the great end results of capitalism: we treat people as if the only thing they should care about are their mechanical needs but without things to nourish the soul or the capacity to talk about same, we fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>We aren\u2019t meant to be\u00a0<i>things<\/i> which sit in blank boxes waiting to be used by our employers. \u00a0Nothing in nature acts that way. \u00a0Nothing\u2019s meant to.<\/p>\n<p>The source article: \u00a0\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/linda-tirado\/why-poor-peoples-bad-decisions-make-perfect-sense_b_4326233.html\" target=\"_blank\">This Is Why Poor People\u2019s Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/um-this-topic-makes-me-fucking-furious\" target=\"_blank\">#um this topic makes me fucking furious<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/i-will-do-a-murder-immediately\" target=\"_blank\">#i will do a murder immediately<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/don%27t\" target=\"_blank\">#don\u2019t<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/not-only-are-small-pleasures-necessary-to-keep-from-SPIRALING-INTO-DEPRESSION-WHEN-YOU-ARE-POOR-but-they-are-STATUS-MARKERS\" target=\"_blank\">#not only are small pleasures necessary to keep from SPIRALING INTO DEPRESSION WHEN YOU ARE POOR but they are STATUS MARKERS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/you-NEED-a-fucking-phone-to-get-a-job\" target=\"_blank\">#you NEED a fucking phone to get a job<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/you-need-a-fucking-SMARTPHONE-to-be-accepted-as-a-normal-person\" target=\"_blank\">#you need a fucking SMARTPHONE to be accepted as a normal person<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/you-need-nice-clothes-to-be-treated-like-you%27re-worth-something\" target=\"_blank\">#you need nice clothes to be treated like you\u2019re worth something<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/especially-if-you%27re-a-poor-poc\" target=\"_blank\">#especially if you\u2019re a poor poc<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/everyone-sit-down\" target=\"_blank\">#everyone sit down<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/think-about-this-if-you-haven%27t-before\" target=\"_blank\">#think about this if you haven\u2019t before<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/smashes-a-vase\" target=\"_blank\">#smashes a vase<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/fuck-capitalism\" target=\"_blank\">#fuck capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eatprayvalkyrie: kaijuvsgiantrobotsvsme: ripplesfromawaterlily: fuck-me-barnes: tessalynn: A snippet from an article on Huffington Post about what it means to be working poor. Pretty spot on\u2026 I got into an argument today with someone who is a landlord, and they were outraged, outraged, to find that their evicted tenants owned an Xbox 360. Never mind that the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/27\/eatprayvalkyrie-kaijuvsgiantrobotsvsme\/\" 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":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[60,4,18094],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161881,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161879\/revisions\/161881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}