{"id":11977,"date":"2025-05-04T20:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:26:06","slug":"learn-to-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=11977","title":{"rendered":"Learn To Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I can help. I can assist. I just can&#8217;t get directly involved in things. I&#8217;m starting over. Also, I&#8217;m not sure where to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">These things are true. The dates, the birthday cake, the pictures, the words, the memories. 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It all started out rather normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The book, the one we&#8217;re trying to recreate for you now, picked up in a couple of days, somewhere around Benson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">&#8212;ooOoo&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The next day though, I woke up happy with excitement, knowing I was gonna ride the Extraterrestrial Highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">With Shouka, Carson&#8217;s killer whale, on my handlebars, I rode through the Nevada desert toward the E.T. 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I can assist. I just can&#8217;t get directly involved in things. I&#8217;m starting over. Also, I&#8217;m not sure where to start. These things are true. The dates, the birthday cake, the pictures, the words, the memories. All of it&#8217;s true, to date. I did stay in Tonopah the first night, and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=11977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learn To Forget<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[2788,2786,2787,2785,16,19,2533],"class_list":["post-11977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-aesthetic-ride","tag-love-is-like-a-heat-wave","tag-in-the-summertime","tag-martha-the-vandellas","tag-mungo-jerry","tag-neuroticattorney","tag-neuroticattorney-com","tag-the-aesthetic-ride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11977"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12001,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions\/12001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}