{"id":7008,"date":"2010-10-14T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2010-10-14T13:07:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T17:07:58","slug":"deal-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/7008","title":{"rendered":"Deal with the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week <a href=\"http:\/\/shouldersofgiantmidgets.blogspot.com\/\">Eric<\/a> is playing the oracle (or is it 20 questions?) and one of my off the cuff questions to him reminded me of something I read about a couple years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The devil comes to you and says he can make a simple change that will spark your creativity and suddenly you&#8217;ll paint or write or create music with a skill you never had before. You do not have to sell your soul for this (but remember, this <em>is<\/em> the devil we&#8217;re talking about).<\/p>\n<p>You can ask questions, but not unlimited questions. After all, he&#8217;s a busy nefarious individual and needs to get back to acquiring souls for eternal torment.<\/p>\n<p>Do you take the deal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDENDUM the First<\/strong>:<br \/>\nTo clarify, it&#8217;s something specific I once ran across while perusing the medical literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Eric is playing the oracle (or is it 20 questions?) and one of my off the cuff questions to him reminded me of something I read about a couple years ago. The devil comes to you and says he can make a simple change that will spark your creativity and suddenly you&#8217;ll paint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-philosophy","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-1P2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}