{"id":367,"date":"2005-07-15T11:59:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T11:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2005\/07\/get-a-grip\/"},"modified":"2005-07-15T11:59:39","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T11:59:39","slug":"get-a-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/get-a-grip\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hold pens in a slightly peculiar way. I&#8217;m not about to go into detail about the exact way that I hold pens when writing, but suffice to say that it is a little peculiar. Not as peculiar as if I held them between my buttocks or if I bit the blunt end off and held them back to front between my middle and ring fingers, but it&#8217;s slightly peculiar regardless.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure when it started. I guess I must have pretty much always held pens in a slightly peculiar way, though over the course of my life I&#8217;ve gradually used a computer more and a pen less, so it&#8217;s less of an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Just now, I was innocently writing something in a notebook, and was suddenly hit full in the face with repulsion at myself. I looked at my hand in disgust, as if it were a slipper full of dog vomit and banana skins. I manipulated my grip to look more human, and tried to write, but it just came out all messy.<\/p>\n<p>And so I&#8217;m stuck with this offensive grip and I don&#8217;t think that it will ever go away. I&#8217;m cursed. Cursed, I tells ya.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go and Google a bit and see if there are any support groups in existence for people with my affliction.<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uborka.nu\/ubi\/001413.html\">Originally posted here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hold pens in a slightly peculiar way. I&#8217;m not about to go into detail about the exact way that I hold pens when writing, but suffice to say that it is a little peculiar. Not as peculiar as if I held them between my buttocks or if I bit the blunt end off and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}