{"id":257,"date":"2011-02-25T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2011-02-25T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:29:03","slug":"6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/screenwriting\/6-months","title":{"rendered":"6 months in and it still kinda sucks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where I live, it&#8217;s a mess. And I can&#8217;t live in a mess, so what do I do? I try to clean it up. Everywhere I go I see furniture on the street, monitors broken on the sidewalk, and painted tags by people who think the world revolves around warfare. \u00a0Well I&#8217;m done with it. I spent a good two months calling in refuse and potholes and it&#8217;s like a lizard tail here. Remove one sofa from the sidewalk and another appears in its place.<\/p>\n<p>Once I realized that most of the people in this neighborhood are apathetic towards their surroundings, I gave up. You can&#8217;t fix apathy without a major campaign and let&#8217;s face it, I spend every waking moment raking in the pennies to pay the rent. I don&#8217;t have time to take that crown, however if there were a job description entitled: Neighborhood Kick Ass Queen, I might take it for 5 figures.<\/p>\n<p>So Koreatown, you can suck it hard. I hate you and your dirty streets. And while I won&#8217;t add to the destruction, I will casually walk by and laugh inside my head at the idiot who thinks leaving their dog&#8217;s crap on the sidewalk is okay. Feh! to you sir or madam, you have been branded with a giant L on your forehead.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m stuck here for the time being in this hamster cage, a place I&#8217;ve come to love with a few exceptions, so it&#8217;s too bad I can&#8217;t lift this property off the ground and transplant it somewhere people give a shit about their surroundings. Forgive my language. I&#8217;m usually pretty reserved online, but I just can&#8217;t think of any other word that accurately describes this area of town. Shit + Hole = North Koreatown<\/p>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t get up in my frill about how lovely and awesome this place is. From a shopping, restaurant and daily cavorting standpoint, it&#8217;s a decent place, but you&#8217;re thinking Wilshire Ave. Push the edge a little north why don&#8217;t yah, spend a month living here and you&#8217;ll know exactly what I mean. I don&#8217;t pass judgement without a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Hey dumbass, why&#8217;d you pick it anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Money people. Money. My apartment is cheap. I am poor. Do the math. \u00a0I&#8217;m grateful I even have a place I can afford in this city without having to shack up with someone else. Don&#8217;t get me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Venting \u00a0online makes it easier to live here. That&#8217;s all it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where I live, it&#8217;s a mess. And I can&#8217;t live in a mess, so what do I do? I try to clean it up. Everywhere I go I see furniture on the street, monitors broken on the sidewalk, and painted tags by people who think the world revolves around warfare. \u00a0Well I&#8217;m done with it. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/screenwriting\/6-months\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;6 months in and it still kinda sucks.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-screenwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}