{"id":5900,"date":"2011-07-25T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2011-07-25T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T10:06:22","slug":"monday-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2011\/07\/25\/monday-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Banana Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;two banana emoticon.&#8221;  I like that.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Adequately describing the way I feel about going to work this morning is going to require a two-banana emoticon.&#8221;<\/em>  At least.  <\/p>\n<p>Yes, there was once a 2BE that was quickly banned because it was deemed offensive by some.  You know liberals &#8211; always ready to take offense at <strong><em>something<\/em><\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>I believe the complaint was that it depicted &#8220;banana rape,&#8221; though, as I recall, the two bananas in question appeared to both be consenting (quite happily so, based on the expressions on their little faces) adult bananas.  Alas, rather than offend anyone, I removed it. We aim to please.<\/p>\n<p>Here in the Northeast (or at least in my neck of the woods), the heat wave has broken.  It was a mere 87 degrees yesterday, and it even felt a bit on the chilly size with a nice little breeze and low humidity.  And right now it&#8217;s only about 61. Quite a nice night for sleeping.  No rain, of course, but that&#8217;s supposed to end today as well, though I don&#8217;t know if that will do a whole lot of good for the grass or not. OK by, me &#8211; I&#8217;m saving a lot of diesel by not having to cut it.  Hopefully the pool will fill up a bit, though, as the level really dropped a lot yesterday.  <\/p>\n<p>Several marriages took place across NYS yesterday, as some couples got waivers from the 24-hr waiting period so they could get hitched ASAP.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wben.com\/Kitty-Lambert-Wedding-Photos\/10434851\">The first ceremony took place at a second or so after midnight in Niagara Falls<\/a>, and here, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9wsyr.com\/news\/local\/story\/Sunday-ceremonies-for-same-sex-couples\/euPSnQa2S0CN7u4CcLxI2Q.cspx\">two fellas that have been together for 18 years were among the couples that were finally able to tie the knot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy people.  What the hell is wrong with that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city\/article499593.ece\">Of course, there were protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On the day hundreds of same-sex couples throughout New York shared their vows, groups in Buffalo, Albany, Rochester and Manhattan organized to protest the new law.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That list doesn&#8217;t include Syracuse, I&#8217;m proud to say. <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, this joyous (downright gay, you might say) weekend is behind us (no pun intended), so I guess it&#8217;s time to get ready for work.  And there aint enough bananas in all of Ecuador to adequately express how I feel about that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;two banana emoticon.&#8221; I like that. &#8220;Adequately describing the way I feel about going to work this morning is going to require a two-banana emoticon.&#8221; At least. Yes, there was once a 2BE that was quickly banned because it was deemed offensive by some. You know liberals &#8211; always ready to take offense at [&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-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","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=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}