{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-16T19:40:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T19:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-01-07T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:26:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20150718_172315.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"1296\" src=\"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20150718_172315.jpg\" alt=\"Author snarling at camera held in outstretched left arm, wearing brown seude womens jacket with fur-lined hood over a red t-shirt with black Dungeons and Dragons design.\" class=\"wp-image-575\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Selfie-as-mirror while shopping Tyler Durden style in the &#8220;Womens Outerwear&#8221; department of the Walden Amvets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a father and recovered ex-husband. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been diagnosed as having depression with anxiety, maybe an attention-deficit disorder or two, perhaps narcissistic, and possibly something called &#8220;depersonalisation disorder&#8221;. \u00a0That last one is the most recent psychological verdict, and more a clinical aid than a diagnosis. \u00a0Nobody who knows sociopathy\u00a0believes I&#8217;m a sociopath. \u00a0Everyone who doesn&#8217;t know, well, they usually\u00a0prefer &#8220;psychopath&#8221;. \u00a0I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northward Midget&nbsp;began as a creative outlet, then&nbsp;a cathartic&nbsp;receptacle&nbsp;for true-life tales of my separation travails through the New York &#8220;Family&#8221; court system, then reassembly instructions, and now just somewhere to throw words into the Empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blog title is a twist on an anagram for some&nbsp;thing that&nbsp;no longer exists.&nbsp; No offense is meant to little people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The password to password-protected posts is what Dennis Hopper called Christopher Walken. I may have un-protected them to show how ugly I used to think. Sorry for being so rapey and misogynistic. I&#8217;m not like that anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comments are enabled. &nbsp;Apparently they don&#8217;t work, or I just don&#8217;t get many.&nbsp; Please keep&nbsp;them on topic. &nbsp;I&#8217;ll only delete obvious spam and stuff that&#8217;s just not relevant to the post. &nbsp; If you have something personal to communicate to me, don&#8217;t do it in a comment. &nbsp;Email to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:quinnfazigu@gmail.com\">quinnfazigu@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a father and recovered ex-husband. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been diagnosed as having depression with anxiety, maybe an attention-deficit disorder or two, perhaps narcissistic, and possibly something called &#8220;depersonalisation disorder&#8221;. \u00a0That last one is the most recent psychological verdict, and more a clinical aid than a diagnosis. \u00a0Nobody who knows sociopathy\u00a0believes I&#8217;m a sociopath. \u00a0Everyone who doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}