{"id":85,"date":"2002-04-08T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-09T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=85"},"modified":"2010-10-19T14:55:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:55:15","slug":"85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Everything Happens for a Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everything happens for a reason&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard that a few times lately and I just really want to know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>what the fuck does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>A girl breaks up with a guy and says to herself, &#8220;Everything happens for a reason&#8230;&#8221; to what? Comfort herself into thinking she didn&#8217;t make a mistake? You broke up with him &#8212; maybe you made a mistake, maybe you didn&#8217;t, but just because there&#8217;s a REASON you broke up with him, doesn&#8217;t mean that it was the right thing to do. Everything happens for a reason. Many, if not most, things happen for stupid, fucked up, WRONG reasons. Those are called MISTAKES.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew he was supposed to be in my life for a reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What the hell is that? You fatalistic pre-destination crazies are going to make my head explode again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everything happens for a reason&#8221; I&#8217;ve heard that a few times lately and I just really want to know&#8230; what the fuck does that mean? A girl breaks up with a guy and says to herself, &#8220;Everything happens for a reason&#8230;&#8221; to what? Comfort herself into thinking she didn&#8217;t make a mistake? You broke up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[71,70],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-uncategorized","tag-blather","tag-reasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}