{"id":1002,"date":"2016-04-08T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T06:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2016-04-08T06:10:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T06:10:05","slug":"days-of-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/days-of-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of Wine and Regret&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Movies or music that speaks to you plucks old strings that are personal;\u00a0a matter of past influences and conditioning, present circumstances, and futures you used to want.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The movie &#8220;The Days of Wine and Roses&#8221; is (IMHO) overly dramatic, a sixties romance,\u00a0showing people drowning in alcoholism, and in their binges, reverting to helpless, childlike despair.<br \/>\nIt had been recommended to me, and I ran across it tonight on TCM.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Days_of_Wine_and_Roses_(film)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Days_of_Wine_and_Roses_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Days_of_Wine_and_Roses_(film)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But among its hollywood love-theme about a couple trying to rebuild their lost love and innocence,\u00a0it did surprise me with a few paralell themes from my own life:<br \/>\nA drunken mother who accidentally sets fire to her home,<br \/>\na father who loses his job, then loses his wife, and then struggles with sobriety.<\/p>\n<p>Those kinds of things happened around me and my sister.<br \/>\nBut real-life leaves scars on top of and under the skin\u00a0that Max Factor can&#8217;t conceal. No retakes. No redemption.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody talks, reconciles, or gets back together.\u00a0They just stay hurt, and gradually go numb in their respective neutral corners,<br \/>\nand leave their loose ends for law enforcement, healthcare, and social workers to sort out.<\/p>\n<p>Just days and days of Sherry and Port. No romance. No sweetness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies or music that speaks to you plucks old strings that are personal;\u00a0a matter of past influences and conditioning, present circumstances, and futures you used to want. The movie &#8220;The Days of Wine and Roses&#8221; is (IMHO) overly dramatic, a sixties romance,\u00a0showing people drowning in alcoholism, and in their binges, reverting to helpless, childlike despair. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/days-of-wine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Days of Wine and Regret&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoirs","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}