{"id":90010,"date":"2017-01-14T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/?p=90010"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:24:48","slug":"chapter-10-you-re-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/chapter-10-you-re-not-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 10 \u2014 You’re Not Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’re Not Alone<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Ahem! *Clears throat. So, where were we? [*awkward silence + the sound of crickets.] Oh, yeah! Um, right. Okay, I got this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time for some retrospection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to chapter ten and the year twenty seventeen, squadron! We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? At this time of the year, we can look back and gauge our personal and professional progress, or it’s digressing if you swing that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not judging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To all the new recruits: Read why I started the SQUAD<\/a> or read previous chapters here<\/a>. (Password: topgun)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Were goals met? Resolutions achieved? You finally asked that girl you’ve been eyeing from third grade out on a date? It turns out she only went out with you because she’s a Scientologist trying to meet her monthly recruitment quota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or the time you lost a bet to a bunch of gay bikers at a sketchy bar, outside of town, and had a dyke perform a Brazillian while you laid passed out on the bar, pants hanging down to your ankles. That night you were made aware of deep-seated issues inhibiting your ability to have relationships with people that are not Siri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ripping the band-aid off analogy would’ve sufficed? Meh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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You’re Not Alone Ahem! *Clears throat. So, where were we? [*awkward silence + the sound of crickets.] Oh, yeah! Um, right. Okay, I got this! Time for some retrospection Welcome to chapter ten and the year twenty seventeen, squadron! We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? At this time of the year, we can look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"paid_subscribers","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":true,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digest-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7CVvN-npM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90263,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90010\/revisions\/90263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}