{"id":8079,"date":"2013-08-21T10:52:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T14:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2013-08-21T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:14:30","slug":"wednesday-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2013\/08\/21\/wednesday-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thrilling morning for me, as I got to start it off with yet another trip to the dentist.  Today, I got to have two cavities filled.  You know it&#8217;s gonna be a fun visit when he says, &#8220;you might not need Novocaine for this.&#8221;  He knows I&#8217;m a coward and I trust his judgement, but still.  It wasn&#8217;t the most fun I&#8217;ve ever had, but I survived and now I&#8217;m good to go for another six months.  Thank goodness. <\/p>\n<p>Big news to announce this morning.  I promised I&#8217;d keep you all informed when the 2013 NY State Fair butter sculpture was unveiled, and I&#8217;m not about to let you down. So, here goes&#8230;.  The theme is &#8220;getting fresh with local dairy,&#8221; and it appears to feature an anorexic cow dressed up like the Statue of Liberty with a an ice cream cone torch (or something).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013_butter.jpg\" alt=\"2013 Butter Sculpture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In other big news, we&#8217;re preparing for our Presidential visit, as Barack Obama is scheduled to some to town tomorrow.  And it sounds like a side trip to see the Harriet Tubman home is quite likely, as the FAA has restricted the airspace for a 30-mile radius around the city of Auburn from 7:30 p.m. Thursday to 10 a.m. Friday.  Speculation has it that the President may spend the night in Auburn (where, I don&#8217;t know &#8211; maybe the Holiday Inn or something).  <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully he&#8217;ll have time to visit the Auburn prison (the oldest prison still in use &#8211; built in 1816 &#8211; and the site of the first execution by electric chair in 1890). Whether he stops in or not, he&#8217;s bound to see it, as it&#8217;s right there in the middle of Auburn, which is kind of weird when you see it for the first time &#8211; this stone fortress that looks like every prison you ever saw in a Jimmy Cagney movie with guard towers filled with guys with machine guns.<\/p>\n<p>Attica gets all the publicity, but Auburn is way more badass.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thrilling morning for me, as I got to start it off with yet another trip to the dentist. Today, I got to have two cavities filled. You know it&#8217;s gonna be a fun visit when he says, &#8220;you might not need Novocaine for this.&#8221; He knows I&#8217;m a coward and I trust his judgement, [&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-8079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079","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=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}