{"id":5534,"date":"2015-12-04T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2015-12-07T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:00:15","slug":"drinking-with-the-grain-of-the-liquor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5534","title":{"rendered":"Drinking with the grain of the liquor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was my office Xmas party. Normally I hate these functions, as I have a long history at being awful at mingling. So I spent the entire week dreading the evening, as I do every year.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t so bad though. Actually, I had a really good time. I ended up talking to a lot of people, and even sat at a table separate from the rest of my department. So somehow I managed to survive and even have a good time despite being miles away from my comfort zone. Who would have thought?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, by &#8220;somehow&#8221; I mean &#8220;thanks to the liquor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had a drink in over 5 years for reasons that I will not get into, but last night I decided that it was time to let go of that particular anxiety and have a few liquor drinks. I wouldn&#8217;t say that I was full-on drunk, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that there was a noticeable shift in my demeanor. I most certainly cracked a number of jokes that I would not have had the nerve to get out if I&#8217;d been sober.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that things turned out well, I can&#8217;t help but feel like I&#8217;ve taken the first step down a long, dark, downward spiral&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/liquor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5518 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/liquor-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"liquor\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/liquor-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/liquor-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/liquor.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was my office Xmas party. Normally I hate these functions, as I have a long history at being awful at mingling. So I spent the entire week dreading the evening, as I do every year. It wasn&#8217;t so bad though. Actually, I had a really good time. I ended up talking to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drinking with the grain of the liquor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-irl","category-pretty-ladies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5535,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}