{"id":4809,"date":"2017-05-22T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2017-05-22T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:44:44","slug":"why-i-dont-smoke-and-neither-should-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/why-i-dont-smoke-and-neither-should-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&#8217;t Smoke And Neither Should You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/18579658_410596632653075_2154670957942276096_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/18579658_410596632653075_2154670957942276096_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4810\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my lifetime, I&#8217;ve only ever smoked about 3 cigarettes. Two of which were for online marketing (you can see the photo above). A nearly full pack of Marlboro still sits on my nightstand. So why the hypocrisy? Because it proves a point that even saintly figures like me have to pull stunts to establish somekind of persona online just so I can attract visitors to my site and maybe even give me work. It doesn&#8217;t mean there is a stronger correlation with being a smoker gets you more work, it just means you gotta try some stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And let me tell you about cigarettes. They suck. They don&#8217;t taste good, they stink, and if you&#8217;re not the right person, smoking cigarettes will ultimately kill you.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not in the camp where I tell you not to smoke outright. You don&#8217;t have to cave-in to peer pressure either. But if you feel inclined to try it, then try it. But after that, it&#8217;s really up to you to decide what you want to do about it. If you&#8217;re a no nonsense person like me, it has more to do with keeping up appearances and forking over good hard-earned money is why I won&#8217;t take up smoking. And a tiny pack of smokes costs a lot! I think I paid $16 for a pack at my local gas station. I only smoked 2 of 20 cigarettes from it in the past 2 years. So I really don&#8217;t care about smoking.<\/p>\n<p>But, as a public service, I suppose I should always tell young people NOT TO SMOKE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my lifetime, I&#8217;ve only ever smoked about 3 cigarettes. Two of which were for online marketing (you can see the photo above). A nearly full pack of Marlboro still sits on my nightstand. So why the hypocrisy? Because it proves a point that even saintly figures like me have to pull stunts to establish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-artistic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}