{"id":1397,"date":"2008-08-28T18:35:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T23:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2008-08-28T18:35:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T23:35:53","slug":"can-you-hear-the-drums-fernando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Can You Hear the Drums, Fernando?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had what we like to call &#8220;A Day.&#8221;<br \/>\nHoly ABBA, Batman, bust out the shot glasses, swing on over to the liquor cabinet and keep &#8217;em comin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I ping-ponged between a breakfast meeting to a client meeting, then off to the Studio to finalize the classes I&#8217;d be teaching, plus a lunchtime private lesson I&#8217;d scheduled. After waiting 15 minutes, I thought, hrm, maybe I should check my email, and sure enough, the student had canceled. (I found out tonight she had a very, very good reason. Poor thing.)<\/p>\n<p>I high-tailed it back to the office, where I plowed through emails &amp; a remnant handful of Doritos, and took off for another client\/vendor meeting. All the while keeping my eyes peeled for a mailbox, which, have you noticed, no longer exist? Maybe they do, in small clusters or at drive-through post offices, none of which are near me, so I finally gave up on my way back to the office &amp; just stopped at the Plaza branch. Again. No box out front. Must be the internet&#8217;s fault. Or terrorists. In fact, I&#8217;ve had such a long, machine-gun sorta day, I think it&#8217;s both. I should start a website. Wait. That might be &#8230;. confusing. Anyway, I went back to the office and stumbled into my iTunes, settling on some old-school Phil Collins to soothe my spirit. Now I&#8217;m thinking great, that was Christian Bale&#8217;s music choice in American Psycho.  It&#8217;s been top of mind because I listened to the first part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thislife.org\/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1256\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> &#8220;This American Life&#8221; podcast when I was in New York last week. Just listen to Starlee Kine&#8217;s segment if you don&#8217;t have the time for the whole thing. It&#8217;s priceless. And will renew your teenage love of Phil Collins if you happen to be around 40 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and through all of this, it was eleventy-billion degrees with the humidity.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m home, the house is clean, we got Thai food for dinner, and it&#8217;s starting to rain. I&#8217;m going to knit and hang with the D-O-GGs and be so grateful that tomorrow is Friday, I have a half day (hopefully) and it&#8217;s a three-day weekend. Sleep. Crafting. Friends. It will be good.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to do the same again<br \/>\nI would, my friend, Fernando. Or do you go by Sussudio?<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh, I forgot a c-word (which is odd to type, seeing how it&#8217;s everyone&#8217;s favorite euphemism for uh, <strong>that<\/strong> &#8220;c-word&#8221;) that&#8217;s pretty crucial to my list&#8230;. Competitive.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had what we like to call &#8220;A Day.&#8221; Holy ABBA, Batman, bust out the shot glasses, swing on over to the liquor cabinet and keep &#8217;em comin&#8217;. I ping-ponged between a breakfast meeting to a client meeting, then off to the Studio to finalize the classes I&#8217;d be teaching, plus a lunchtime private lesson [&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":[139,33,23,7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397"}],"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=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}