{"id":3242,"date":"2020-12-25T23:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T23:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2020-12-25T23:26:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T23:26:25","slug":"merry-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2020\/12\/merry-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful Christmas, probably the best looking one I had ever been part of.<\/p>\n

My grandmother had everything set up and out: fancy food, fancy cutlery, fancy everything. We\u2019re all dressed up. We arrive on the Eve and everything is peaceful.<\/p>\n

I get a RC car on the 25th. And it says on the box \u201cuse turbo to go up to 21mph!\u2019’<\/em><\/p>\n

I ask dad \u201cthat\u2019s pretty fast, right?\u201d<\/em> and he answers, super matter of factly \u201cyes, that speed would allow you to go through a wall\u201d<\/em> and I\u2019m like \u201cnot with this car, right?\u201d<\/em> and he says, drinking his wine, \u201cuh with this car yes\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

I ponder. I visualize. I run simulations in my head and of course when no one is looking, I run my RC car into the wall to see. Nothing. It just bumps out and loses momentum. At some point my dad sees me persevere and says something like \u201cdon\u2019t do that please tf?\u201d<\/em> and I\u2019m thinking \u201cI\u2019m running serious EXPERIMENTS HERE help me out instead of shutting down the lab.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It made me realize that walls are pretty strong. One does not simply go through a wall. That 21mph is not really fast and that if you want to go through a wall at that speed, you need some serious weight. Something a RC car doesn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how long it took me to realize that but probably a few weeks or so and the conversation about going through a wall at 21mph rose up again. Dad was like \u201coh yeah, I meant with a real car\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

This was the first time that this meme \u2013even though I didn\u2019t know it at that time, showed up in my mind:<\/p>\n

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It was a beautiful Christmas, probably the best looking one I had ever been part of. My grandmother had everything set up and out: fancy food, fancy cutlery, fancy everything. We\u2019re all dressed up. We arrive on the Eve and everything is peaceful. I get a RC car on the 25th. And it says on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}