{"id":4806,"date":"2014-07-26T16:25:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2014-07-24T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T16:27:59","slug":"going-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=4806","title":{"rendered":"Going too far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/vonnegut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4807\" alt=\"vonnegut\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/vonnegut.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/vonnegut.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/vonnegut-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>As a follow-up to my last post, a friend sent me this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kurt Vonnegut: \u00a0&#8220;&#8230;my father, who struggled to become a painter after he was forced into early and unwelcome retirement by the Great Depression. 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