{"id":6704,"date":"2021-01-26T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2021-01-26T07:52:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:52:27","slug":"marlboro-menthol-100s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/marlboro-menthol-100s\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlboro Menthol 100s"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6704\" data-postid=\"6704\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6704 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>It was 27 degrees on a weekday morning. I walked to a convenience store for a decent cup of drip coffee. Outside the store, a transient, a younger man, sorted through the garbage receptacle with one hand while he held up is bicycle laden with gear with his other hand. As I approached the entrance, the man looked toward me and said, \u201cHey, sir, do you have a smoke?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo, sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t be sorry. It&#8217;s a bad habit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I eased his way and we struck up a conversation about bad habits, the cold, the high cost of cigarettes, and how most of his gear had recently been stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHang in there,\u201d I said, and I left to enter the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I poured a coffee and went up to the counter to pay. A thought bolted into my mind. I dashed outside. The transient was still sorting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHey,\u201d I said. \u201cWhat&#8217;s your favorite brand of cigarettes?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMarlboro menthol 100s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A transient smoked menthols?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOkay,\u201d I said and returned to the store and bought him a pack. Around ten bucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside, I placed the cigarettes on a parking barrier and called out to him. \u201cHere&#8217;s your menthols!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201cThank you sir and God bless you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t know about that considering they were cigarettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I walked away carrying my coffee and reflected on the last time I bought a pack of cigarettes. It was for an evil and beautiful Jezebel and her brand was Marlboro light 100s.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 27 degrees on a weekday morning. I walked to a convenience store for a decent cup of drip coffee. Outside the store, a transient, a younger man, sorted through the garbage receptacle with one hand while he held up is bicycle laden with gear with his other hand. As I approached the entrance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}