{"id":173,"date":"2023-08-24T21:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T21:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:20:04","slug":"working-marrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/24\/working-marrying\/","title":{"rendered":"WORKING, MARRYING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the musical GETTING EVERYTHING<\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

I wrote this little song a long time ago, but as I have aged it seems more relevant than
ever. Or perhaps I\u2019m just nostalgic for a simpler set of choices. In any case I would find it a
suitable envoi. –J. Linn Allen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SEEKING EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEX AND OTHER STIMULANTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ECSTASY AND HIGH ROMANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARE ONLY WAYS OF KILLING TIME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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LIFE IS ESSENTIALLY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MADE UP OF NO MORE THAN THREE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THINGS THAT WE\u2019VE BEEN DOING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MORE OR LESS UNCHANGINGLY THROUGHOUT TIME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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WORKING, MARRYING, HAVING CHILDREN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THAT IS ALL THERE HAS TO BE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALL THE REST IS WINDOW-DRESSING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECOND GUESSING REALITY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I WAS SO DEVIOUS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IT WAS ALL SO OBVIOUS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAS RIGHT HERE AT HAND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALL THE TIME.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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From the musical GETTING EVERYTHING I wrote this little song a long time ago, but as I have aged it seems more relevant thanever. Or perhaps I\u2019m just nostalgic for a simpler set of choices. In any case I would find it asuitable envoi. –J. Linn Allen SEEKING EXPERIENCE SEX AND OTHER STIMULANTS ECSTASY AND […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}