{"id":5361,"date":"2019-08-24T05:04:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2019-08-24T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T04:04:26","slug":"sat-aug-24-2019-almost-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/08\/24\/sat-aug-24-2019-almost-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat. Aug. 24, 2019 &#8211; almost September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hot, humid, wet, what&#8217;s not to love?<\/p>\n<p>Second and last day of my non-prepping hobby show\/swapmeet\/convention. I&#8217;m going in for a breakfast today, then some buying of stuff, then I&#8217;ll help with the loadout. Meatspace, I&#8217;m digging it more as I get out more. Yeah I know, &#8220;ordinary fuking people, I hate &#8217;em&#8221;.* That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re all internet curmudgeons. Still, take a class, join a club, attend a civic or community meeting. The people around you will either be help or a threat come SHTF. Better to know them and be known (in a limited way) to them before hand. Think anyone&#8217;s gonna take your advice if they don&#8217;t know you from Adam? Think they might if you volunteer at their kid&#8217;s school, and they can count on you to show up?<\/p>\n<p>Come the collapse or slow decline, when things get tough do you really want to be that loner weirdo that no one knows? I&#8217;m coming around to the idea that that would be unhelpful.<\/p>\n<p>So, get out there and develop some human capital.<\/p>\n<p>n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hot, humid, wet, what&#8217;s not to love?<\/p>\n<p>Second and last day of my non-prepping hobby show\/swapmeet\/convention. I&#8217;m going in for a breakfast today, then some buying of stuff, then I&#8217;ll help with the loadout. Meatspace, I&#8217;m digging it more as I get out more. Yeah I know, &#8220;ordinary fuking people, I hate &#8217;em&#8221;.* That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re all internet curmudgeons. Still, take a class, join a club, attend a civic or community meeting. The people around you will either be help or a threat come SHTF.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/08\/24\/sat-aug-24-2019-almost-september\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sat. Aug. 24, 2019 &#8211; almost September &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}