{"id":634,"date":"2005-12-17T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2005-12-17T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-17T05:01:00","slug":"whirlwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Whirlwind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, time, lists, projects, must-dos &#8211; they are just circlin&#8217; the drain. I&#8217;ve got a hunnert things to do, twice as many things I want to do, I have trips &#038; appointments, time-eaters and commitments, and boy, howdy, it sure must be the holidays.  I am grateful the office kitchen is on another floor, because I&#8217;m not as tempted to eat all the sugar &#038; popcorn when it&#8217;s far away! (hi, it&#8217;s not about self-restraint, the fact is, I&#8217;m lazy.)<\/p>\n<p>Things are good. If they weren&#8217;t good, all of the above would have me huddled under my electric blanket, waiting for the undertow to take me away. 8 months later, I still like my job, I still like my bosses, I have a lot of things on the horizon that are good, and I work with one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinningathena.blogspot.com\/\">funniest women<\/a> I know. Between the two of us, we&#8217;re a media minstrel show. I told her she needed to take up the banjo, so we could really take our show on the road. (I, of course, am the soft shoe, spoken-word performance part of our nationwide tour. With jazz hands.) <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and an update on Inflatables Watch 2005: Snowman has been flat on his back two nights in a row, the penguin is leaning backwards, and Santa looks drunk, as he is lurching forward at a rakish, dangerous angle. I have never viewed a yard so challenged in keeping their holiday spirit upright. <\/p>\n<p>Happy Weekend. Don&#8217;t sweat the small stuff. And yeah, pretty much? It&#8217;s all small stuff. Except Drunken Santa. He&#8217;s rather tall &#038; looming. When he&#8217;s standing up all the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, time, lists, projects, must-dos &#8211; they are just circlin&#8217; the drain. I&#8217;ve got a hunnert things to do, twice as many things I want to do, I have trips &#038; appointments, time-eaters and commitments, and boy, howdy, it sure must be the holidays. I am grateful the office kitchen is on another floor, [&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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}