{"id":48,"date":"2005-04-12T13:29:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T13:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:18:01","slug":"guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Guilt&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatthehack.org\/\">What The Hack<\/a>, for which I have a ticket, coincides with my girlfriend&#8217;s birthday, the first one for either of us since we got together. We&#8217;ve not been together <em>that<\/em> long so I&#8217;ve not really known her birthday until recently. Thankfully she&#8217;s not laying the law down to me and at least I can try to work out what to do. I&#8217;m not sure whether the ticket is refundable or transferrable to someone else but I would feel terrible if I missed her birthday. I think she&#8217;s willing to forgive my discovery if I buy her a car \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me a lot of the scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117951\/\">Trainspotting<\/a> in the nightclub where Tommy is telling Spud about his girlfriend Lizzy going nuts at him for forgetting her birthday and buying a ticket for an Iggy Pop gig which is on the same night. The scene is intercut with shots of Lizzy in the nightclub toilets talking to Spud&#8217;s girlfriend Gail explaining the same situation. The scene closes with Lizzy and Gail returning from the toilet and interrupting Tommy and Spud&#8217;s  conversation by saying, &#8220;What yoo talkin&#8217; aboot?&#8221;, they look nervously at each other and reply, &#8220;Football. What yoo talkin&#8217; aboot?&#8221; to which they smugly respond with, &#8220;Shopping.&#8221; Sadly this is the penultimate milestone on the road to the end of Tommy&#8217;s relationship with Lizzy, the beginning of a downward spiral that results in Tommy becoming a heroin addict like his friends and ultimately his death.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the same will not come of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered that What The Hack, for which I have a ticket, coincides with my girlfriend&#8217;s birthday, the first one for either of us since we got together. We&#8217;ve not been together that long so I&#8217;ve not really known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=48\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}