{"id":191651,"date":"2009-07-14T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/14\/well-today-sucked\/"},"modified":"2009-07-14T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:23:00","slug":"well-today-sucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/14\/well-today-sucked\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Today Sucked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It pretty much started out as a normal <span>unemployment<\/span> day, I was calling recruiters, and just before I was about to make myself lunch, I get a frantic call from my daughter, Natalie.<\/p>\n<p>Camp had ended early, noon instead of 2:00 pm, because they are having an afternoon\/evening outing, so I had to rush out to pick her up, which I did.<\/p>\n<p><span>Unfortunately<\/span>, in the rush, I did not look at the gas gauge, and on I-795, I ran out of gas, and I called Sharon<sup>*<\/sup> to pick up the Jerry can from the shed that I use to fuel the lawn mower.<\/p>\n<p>So I spent an hour on the shoulder, in the sun, having had nothing to eat or drink since I woke up.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t think that my blood sugar or <span>electrolytes<\/span> have recovered, so I&#8217;m not posting any more today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be even more incoherent than usual, which is saying something.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Love of my life, light of the cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\"><span>she who must be obeyed<\/span><\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It pretty much started out as a normal unemployment day, I was calling recruiters, and just before I was about to make myself lunch, I get a frantic call from my daughter, Natalie. Camp had ended early, noon instead of 2:00 pm, because they are having an afternoon\/evening outing, so I had to rush out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191651"}],"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=191651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}