{"id":8029,"date":"2008-05-04T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8029"},"modified":"2010-07-20T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T18:01:59","slug":"this-is-why-i-am-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8029","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why I Am Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on my run along Boulevard East, I saw a huge tour bus with the words QUEBEC on it stop by the bust of Alexander Hamilton &#8211; and people poured out of it &#8211; to stare at the plaque, and the bust, and take pictures, and pose smiling, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It is wonderful that he is remembered.  That the estimated spot of his death is on the list of &#8220;things to see&#8221; for a bunch of Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>But what did I feel as I ran towards them, &#8220;Every Sperm Is Sacred&#8221; pounding in my ears?<\/p>\n<p>I felt jealous.<\/p>\n<p>Proprietary.<\/p>\n<p>I thought (openly, to myself): &#8220;<i>Get away from him.  He&#8217;s MINE. WhatEVER your tour guide is saying can&#8217;t even scratch the surface of MY feelings about him. Every sperm is sacred. GET. AWAY. from him, Frenchies.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I <i>actually<\/i> felt this.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I see such a congregation around him, I think I will bust in on them, and start to rant about how he&#8217;s MINE, and everyone should GET AWAY &#8230; just to see what would happen.  It might be amusing, <i>non<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to &#8220;visit&#8221; him when no one else is around, so that I can have his undivided attention and I don&#8217;t have to <i>share<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"2194595379_bb5a902c4e.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/2194595379_bb5a902c4e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ahbust.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/ahbust.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Photos by moi<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on my run along Boulevard East, I saw a huge tour bus with the words QUEBEC on it stop by the bust of Alexander Hamilton &#8211; and people poured out of it &#8211; to stare at the plaque, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8029\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23616,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions\/23616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}