{"id":481,"date":"2006-02-10T08:26:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T08:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=481"},"modified":"2006-02-10T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T08:26:30","slug":"its-just-a-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/02\/10\/its-just-a-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s just a ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nThe world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it&#8217;s real because that&#8217;s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it&#8217;s very brightly coloured and it&#8217;s very loud and it&#8217;s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: &#8220;Is this real, or is this just a ride?&#8221; And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, &#8220;Hey, don&#8217;t worry, don&#8217;t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And we kill those people.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.konformist.com\/2001\/hicks.htm\">Bill Hicks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it&#8217;s real because that&#8217;s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it&#8217;s very brightly coloured and it&#8217;s very loud and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-7L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}