{"id":6921,"date":"2017-08-05T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2017-07-27T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:40:23","slug":"criminal-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6921","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My youngest brother is in the process of cleaning out his bedroom, tossing or selling all of the things that he&#8217;s willing to part with. There have been many unfortunate losses, but I simply can&#8217;t re-adopt\u00a0that\u00a0Nintendo Power collection\u00a0that I gave to him so many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things that he has opted not to keep are the first three seasons of <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> on DVD. Now, I\u00a0do very much enjoy\u00a0<em>Criminal Minds<\/em> -it\u00a0swiftly became one of my favourite TV shows after I was introduced to it- so I eagerly\u00a0gave them a loving home in\u00a0my own DVD shelf. The thing is, <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> was never one of <em>my<\/em> shows, if you get my drift. I always watched it in certain company, and as a result it has a lot of emotional baggage tied to it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I sit here, looking at these DVD sets, completely unsure about what to do. On one hand, I know I&#8217;d like to watch them, because I sure do love that show. On the other hand, it&#8217;s got a loaded history and I might have a complete emotional breakdown if I try to watch them.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s lesson is this: never get attached to <em>people<\/em>, only get attached to <em>things<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My youngest brother is in the process of cleaning out his bedroom, tossing or selling all of the things that he&#8217;s willing to part with. There have been many unfortunate losses, but I simply can&#8217;t re-adopt\u00a0that\u00a0Nintendo Power collection\u00a0that I gave to him so many years ago. Among other things that he has opted not to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Criminal Dilemma<\/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":[28,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiot-box","category-irl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","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=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6939,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}