{"id":88,"date":"2007-09-22T12:42:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T11:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/2007\/09\/22\/badass\/"},"modified":"2007-09-22T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T11:42:43","slug":"badass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Badass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My descent into responsible adulthood continues apace. The vacuum cleaner that came with my current flat appears to be powered by elastic bands. It doesn&#8217;t suck. So finally in a fit of practicality and technophillia I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyson.co.uk\/range\/feature_frame.asp?model=DC19\">bought one of these<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To quote one of Neal Stephenson&#8217;s characters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted myself to being bad.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At 30 the fact that I&#8217;m excited about a new vacuum cleaner proves that this is no longer, if it ever was, true for me.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side. My new vacuum cleaner totally rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My descent into responsible adulthood continues apace. The vacuum cleaner that came with my current flat appears to be powered by elastic bands. It doesn&#8217;t suck. So finally in a fit of practicality and technophillia I bought one of these. To quote one of Neal Stephenson&#8217;s characters: &#8220;Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=88\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Badass<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}