{"id":6141,"date":"2011-08-30T05:50:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2011-08-30T11:13:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T15:13:03","slug":"the-nys-thruway-is-closed-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2011\/08\/30\/the-nys-thruway-is-closed-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The NYS Thruway is Closed, Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not an homage to Woodstock. In fact, it&#8217;s not even <strong><em>that<\/em><\/strong> part of the Thruway (it&#8217;s the Real America, I-90 part that runs east\/west, not that godless part that runs north\/south).  It&#8217;s that damn Irene again.  Back in 1987, a bridge over Schoharie Creek collapsed due to flooding, and, with severe flooding in Eastern NY, Thruway officials aren&#8217;t taking any chances this time around.  So they&#8217;ve closed the Thruway from Syracuse to Albany.  This is a major hassle for anybody who needs to go that way.  Now that I&#8217;ve developed a Tea Party mentality, I don&#8217;t care.  It&#8217;s not like I was going to Albany (as long as this doesn&#8217;t affect any UPS deliveries or anything).  In fact, I consider highways to be socialism, and I think they ought to sell off the whole Interstate Highway system. <\/p>\n<p>Madden NFL 12 comes out today.  This is really big news.  Not for me.  Every now and I again I get it, but quickly realize there aren&#8217;t enough hours in the day for me to figure out how to play the goddamn thing.  I guess I&#8217;m just stupid, and I&#8217;m lucky if I have time to watch a little &#8220;real&#8221; football these days.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, time to find the oil of oregano.  Still feel like I&#8217;m coming down with something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not an homage to Woodstock. In fact, it&#8217;s not even that part of the Thruway (it&#8217;s the Real America, I-90 part that runs east\/west, not that godless part that runs north\/south). It&#8217;s that damn Irene again. Back in 1987, a bridge over Schoharie Creek collapsed due to flooding, and, with severe flooding in [&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-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141","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=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6143,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions\/6143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}