{"id":715,"date":"2007-08-31T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2007-08-31T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T15:37:55","slug":"friday-open-thread-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2007\/08\/31\/friday-open-thread-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe this is the last day of August already.  When you&#8217;re a kid, you hear the old people talk about how fast the years go by, but you don&#8217;t really appreciate it until <strong><em>you&#8217;re<\/em><\/strong> the old guy, bitching about time flying (and your aches and pains), and repeating all of your old stories while the young folk effect those stone-faced, semi-smiling looks as they try their best to tune you out to keep from going fucking crazy.  Pretty soon, all that&#8217;ll be left is talking about how many medications you&#8217;re on, and discussing the quality of your BM&#8217;s.  Is it any wonder Peggy Lee sang, &#8220;is that all there is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s a three-day weekend coming up, and that&#8217;s a good thing (first day off for me since July 4<sup>th<\/sup>, and that&#8217;s waaaaaay too long).  And we have visitors coming too.  Granny&#8217;s daughter and her husband are coming with the little one, who I have yet to meet.  They&#8217;ll be showing off the kid to her great grandparents, so that ought to be fun.  We can sit around and tell all the old stories, and talk about our BM&#8217;s and whatnot. &#8216;Cuz, well, that&#8217;s all there is.<\/p>\n<p><video>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E-hiDMpcN9Y<\/video><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe this is the last day of August already. When you&#8217;re a kid, you hear the old people talk about how fast the years go by, but you don&#8217;t really appreciate it until you&#8217;re the old guy, bitching about time flying (and your aches and pains), and repeating all of your old stories [&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-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}