{"id":3493,"date":"2016-11-08T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2016-11-08T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:53:10","slug":"a-stronger-man-than-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3493\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stronger Man than I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3462\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> about the mental disintegration of Australians, I see fellow blogger Adam has succumbed to the same weakness. \u00a0Having posted a review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2016\/11\/diary-of-toxic-love\/499277\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, we learn from the <a href=\"https:\/\/pushingrubberdownhill.com\/2016\/11\/07\/honesty-is-the-best-policy-with-a-good-woman\/#comment-1092\" target=\"_blank\">comments<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I didn\u2019t make it through. I skimmed and cherry-picked and had everything I needed about a quarter of the way in. I have no idea as to the rest of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I confess, I couldn&#8217;t even make it past the first five paragraphs. \u00a0I&#8217;d rather open the batting against Dale Steyn than wade through that. \u00a0Adam&#8217;s scored the equivalent of a half-century under trying conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to this post about the mental disintegration of Australians, I see fellow blogger Adam has succumbed to the same weakness. \u00a0Having posted a review of this article, we learn from the comments that: I didn\u2019t make it through. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3493\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,2,79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}