{"id":1049,"date":"2007-04-28T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2007-04-28T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T14:46:00","slug":"live-late-breakingand-amusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Live, Late-Breaking&#8230;.and Amusing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching KCTV5&#8217;s morning show, and usually they&#8217;re just chipper and entertaining, but now they&#8217;re playing music that &#8220;segues&#8221; into their stories, and some story was just on about searching for a cure, so they played &#8220;Cure for Pain&#8221; by Morphine (which happens to be one of those bands that makes me want to drink whiskey &#038; dance on tables) and I was shocked, because it&#8217;s not the most mainstream song you&#8217;d expect to hear on the NEWS, but then the anchorwoman ruined it all by chirping, &#8220;And that&#8217;s The Morphines!&#8221; I buried my face in my hands. Mark Sandman is going to haunt her ass tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable news stories from this morning: A 60-something year old lady named Vera in Tuckahoe NY had a surprise for a would-be robber of her deli &#8211; with one hand, she grabbed some singles and threw them on the floor, and when he bent down to get them, she went, WHAM, with the baseball bat she&#8217;d grabbed with her other hand, and the moral of the story was &#8220;Don&#8217;t Mess With Vera&#8221;, and Vera was quite the spitfire, but unfortunately, I can&#8217;t find the news clip. Seeing Vera slam the bat on the imaginary burglar for the cameras (with the shouted &#8220;WHAM&#8221;!) was pretty awesome. <\/p>\n<p>In my effort to find the clip, I did see a poll on the website, &#8220;Should scalping be legalized in Missouri, yes or no.&#8221; WTF???? OH hell. I just clicked through for more info.  See, I think it should be phrased TICKET SCALPING, because I completely went with my original definition of the word, and I could not believe my eyes, that someone was trying to legalize separating your scalp from your head.<\/p>\n<p>Considering I was outside in the garden at SIX THIRTY this morning, I have decreed the rest of the day Free Time, beyond the errands I need to run. I got all my hostas &#038; astilbe planted, landscape fabric down, rosemary potted &#038; one decorative planter finished (uh, 10 more to go&#8230;.) I need a lot more potting soil, so I&#8217;ll get that today &#038; finish up Operation Prettify between today &#038; tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching KCTV5&#8217;s morning show, and usually they&#8217;re just chipper and entertaining, but now they&#8217;re playing music that &#8220;segues&#8221; into their stories, and some story was just on about searching for a cure, so they played &#8220;Cure for Pain&#8221; by Morphine (which happens to be one of those bands that makes me want to drink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}