{"id":10524,"date":"2010-04-24T07:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T12:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10524"},"modified":"2010-03-31T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T21:41:38","slug":"lachowski-kris-the-constant-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10524","title":{"rendered":"Lachowski, Kris &#8211; The Constant Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meangoatcomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/constantdilemna1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"constantdilemna1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/constantdilemna1.jpg\" alt=\"constantdilemna1\" width=\"327\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Constant Dilemma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everybody has been there at one time or another.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re sitting around, having just eaten your cupcake, or cookie, or muffin, and you&#8217;re vaguely satisfied but you wouldn&#8217;t mind another one.\u00c2\u00a0 You notice that the person next to you hasn&#8217;t eaten their cupcake\/cookie\/muffin but (especially if you don&#8217;t know the person) it&#8217;s a bit tacky to just ask for their dessert.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s as far as it&#8217;s ever gone for me, and yes, I have, on occasion, just asked for their dessert.\u00c2\u00a0 Kris, on the other hand, takes this in another direction.\u00c2\u00a0 He notices that the person he&#8217;s sitting next to hasn&#8217;t eaten his cupcake, but his instinct is to smash it.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 He has no idea, but he has a hard time fighting back the urge.\u00c2\u00a0 What would the person do, what would the other people around him do?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impossible thought, but then again, why not?\u00c2\u00a0 This is a tiny mini, so there&#8217;s not much more to it than that, but I also appreciated the alternate ending on the back cover for anybody who wasn&#8217;t satisfied with the actual ending.\u00c2\u00a0 Um, assuming that this was in any way a true story.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Good stuff once again from Kris, and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s not the only person out there who can relate to wanting to smash a cupcake&#8230; $1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/constantdilemna2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"constantdilemna2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/constantdilemna2.jpg\" alt=\"constantdilemna2\" width=\"444\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Constant Dilemma Everybody has been there at one time or another.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re sitting around, having just eaten your cupcake, or cookie, or muffin, and you&#8217;re vaguely satisfied but you wouldn&#8217;t mind another one.\u00c2\u00a0 You notice that the person next to you hasn&#8217;t eaten their cupcake\/cookie\/muffin but (especially if you don&#8217;t know the person) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3013,1496],"class_list":["post-10524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-kris-lachowski","tag-the-constant-dilemma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10538,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions\/10538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}