{"id":9037,"date":"2014-11-25T06:20:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/?p=9037"},"modified":"2014-11-25T06:20:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:20:05","slug":"shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2014\/11\/25\/shocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;re all shocked that the Grand Jury in Ferguson failed to indict the cop who, through no fault of his own, shot a black kid to death for walking down the middle of the street. Or something. Gee, who coulda seen that one coming? <\/p>\n<p>In other news, it was 72&deg; here yesterday, which is pretty good for the 24th of November. In fact, it was a record. I wish I could say it was going to stay that way for a while but, sadly, it&#8217;s not. In fact, they say a Nor&#8217;easter is rolling in for tomorrow, though right now it looks as though it will stay to the east of me. You folks on the coast, though&#8230;. Well, I just hope there won&#8217;t be any flooding from it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m home alone here with the critters, as the wife left yesterday for balmy Minneapolis. She took puking cat to the vet before she left for a shot of cortisone that will hopefully keep her from puking for a while. The tumor is a big bigger, apparently, and the cat has lost some weight. Hopefully she&#8217;ll feel better for a while.<\/p>\n<p>In other animal-related news, one dog seems to have a hole in his leg, and the other has a hole next to his eye. I don&#8217;t know when all that happened, but I hope whatever they were doing, they knock it off. I don&#8217;t need anything more to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming they (and I) make it through the day without killing or being killed, I&#8217;m at least home with them tomorrow and Thursday. After that I&#8217;ll really have to worry until I get back (hopefully) Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>And of course there seems to be no end to the mouse supply around here. I was pleased to find no new ones waiting for me when I got home last night, but I heard the unmistakable &#8220;snap &#8211; flop&#8221; sound twice more before I went to bed, and I saw at least one more waiting for me this morning (I&#8217;m waiting for the coffee to kick in before I go harvest the crop).<\/p>\n<p>I ordered some stinky stuff that&#8217;s supposed to keep them away (my sister swears by it) to put in my basement and garage. Some kind of pine-smelling potpourri-type stuff. It should at least be easier on my nose (and eyes) that the fox piss\/cayenne pepper spray I&#8217;ve been using. Hopefully it&#8217;ll work (if not, I ordered more traps, too).<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, time to do some rodent disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;re all shocked that the Grand Jury in Ferguson failed to indict the cop who, through no fault of his own, shot a black kid to death for walking down the middle of the street. Or something. Gee, who coulda seen that one coming? In other news, it was 72&deg; here yesterday, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037","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=9037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9038,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}