{"id":182334,"date":"2015-10-16T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/16\/my-wife-refuses-to-appreciate-my-beautiful-mind\/"},"modified":"2015-10-16T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T22:22:00","slug":"my-wife-refuses-to-appreciate-my-beautiful-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/16\/my-wife-refuses-to-appreciate-my-beautiful-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"My Wife Refuses to Appreciate My Beautiful Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my Sharon<sup>*<\/sup> and noted that she would never guess the latest place where the consequences of fracking.<\/p>\n<p>She declined to guess, and I told her that it was Oklahoma, where they are freaking out over a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a38905\/united-states-fracking-industry\/\">300 fold increase in the number of earthquakes<\/a> brought on by rejecting waste water into deep wells.<\/p>\n<p>This generated a blank look from my wife, and I said that pumping the water deep under ground causes earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>I got another blank look, and I explained how the water, when injected deep underground, lubricates between faults, and that the lubrication translates into more motion, <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Kind of Like Sex<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I got a &#8220;what the f%$# are you talking about?&#8221; look from her, so I further explained that proper lubrication allows for more motion.<\/p>\n<p>And then I got <b><span style=\"font-size: 130%; font-variant: small-caps;\">That<\/span><\/b> look from her.<\/p>\n<p>If you have ever been married, you know the look that I&#8217;m talking about, the one that has you worrying about her sharp knives \u2026\u2026\u2026 and then you start to worry about her <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">dull<\/span><\/b> knives.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Love of my life, light of the  cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">she  who must be obeyed<\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my Sharon* and noted that she would never guess the latest place where the consequences of fracking. She declined to guess, and I told her that it was Oklahoma, where they are freaking out over a 300 fold increase in the number of earthquakes brought on by rejecting waste water into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1158,1135,1079,976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-aggravation","category-energy","category-environment","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}