{"id":1147,"date":"2008-10-04T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2008-10-04T09:07:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T13:07:12","slug":"saturday-open-thread-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/10\/04\/saturday-open-thread-123\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much going on around here today.  Mercifully, SU has a bye week, so I won&#8217;t have to suffer through another loss.  I do need to get the grass cut, though &#8211; probably for the last time this season.  It&#8217;s getting a little chilly around here lately, which is fine by me.  I reckon I need to get the pellet stove ready for operation, though we don&#8217;t have a heck of a lot of pellets left over from last year, and missed out on several chances to get good deals from our supplier.  The thought of hauling 4 or 6 thousand pounds of pellets from the garage to the basement doesn&#8217;t really seem all that appealing to me right now anyway.<\/p>\n<p>All this Wall St. stuff and state budget cuts are screwing up my plans to transfer to a different job.  They&#8217;ve gone from a 120-day lag in hiring to an outright freeze as our campus has just been handed another $5.5 million in cuts to absorb.  Even though I&#8217;m just looking for a lateral move, I&#8217;m stuck at where I am for the foreseeable future.  I guess I need to shine up the old resume and put some energy into a new direction.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting a little old for this shit, though, so I think I start out with the more modest goal of getting the grass cut, and see how it goes from there.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much going on around here today. Mercifully, SU has a bye week, so I won&#8217;t have to suffer through another loss. I do need to get the grass cut, though &#8211; probably for the last time this season. It&#8217;s getting a little chilly around here lately, which is fine by me. I reckon I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}