{"id":136,"date":"2005-12-28T01:34:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-28T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/blog.php\/?p=136"},"modified":"2005-12-28T01:34:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-28T06:34:08","slug":"aging-and-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/136\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging and Stealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yah, I&#8217;m 25 now.  My grandpa is known as saying, &#8220;Life is like a roll of toilet paper.  The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.&#8221;  We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I don&#8217;t make resolutions for the new year, and this year is no exception.  However, I do have a resolution for the um, end of the month.  I am a sucker for downloading music, movies, and software from illegit sources.  I never thought of myself as a thief, but that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve become.  One reason is that it&#8217;s so EASY to get the stuff.  Any person with moderate computer skills can download hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.  For instance, in 3 minutes I could download any popular album.  From my chair, without paying a cent.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s all kinds of excuses people make to justify this kind of activity.  But in the end, I believe it to be outright stealing.  No matter who you&#8217;re stealing from, or if they&#8217;re billionaires and won&#8217;t miss it, or if the artist\/hollywood is corrupt, or if you didn&#8217;t make the copy.  Stealing is stealing.  So, why have I been doing it?  I&#8217;ve just been sucked into it because it&#8217;s so easy to do and saves money that I might otherwise have spent.  Not a good excuse, I know.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that if I give up this habit, God will reward me.  He may not give me all the software, music, and movies I could possibly want for free, but I will be rewarded in other ways that far exceed the value of stolen merchandise.  So I&#8217;m going to make the effort.  If you believe this is a worthy goal, please send free stuff to me at&#8230; no, please just help me stick to the plan \ud83d\ude42  I&#8217;ve been blessed beyond what I can ever deserve so far in life.  I don&#8217;t want to incur wrath by being a thief!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yah, I&#8217;m 25 now. My grandpa is known as saying, &#8220;Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.&#8221; We&#8217;ll see. Normally I don&#8217;t make resolutions for the new year, and this year is no exception. However, I do have a resolution for the um, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}