{"id":1029,"date":"2006-10-16T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2006-10-16T22:42:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T05:42:25","slug":"my-brother-in-law-is-a-goofus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"My brother-in-law is a goofus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a law, I think, that your brother-in-law has to be a goofus. He did some horse-trading and got rid of his truck to buy a monster Chevy and then my sister was stuck at home with no car. So they had to get a loan and buy a Honda Fit. Why a Fit for a big white guy who is probably at least 6&#8217;2&#8243;? I don&#8217;t know. He&#8217;s a goofus, after all.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason I couldn&#8217;t sleep last night and I&#8217;m feeling antsy again. Perhaps even a bit cranky. My computer doesn&#8217;t seem to be as, &#8220;snappy,&#8221; as I&#8217;d like. I think it was all the rain or something. Paying bills should have calmed me down, right? Watching Arizona squander a 20-point lead to the miserable Chicago Bears should have made me feel better, right? Maybe I should start drinking earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and speaking of goofus, it looks like the TV I was looking at is available at Costco. Unfortunately, I decided I didn&#8217;t want a built-in DVD player and this one has one. Hmmmm, what to do, what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a law, I think, that your brother-in-law has to be a goofus. He did some horse-trading and got rid of his truck to buy a monster Chevy and then my sister was stuck at home with no car. So they had to get a loan and buy a Honda Fit. Why a Fit for a big white guy who is probably at least 6&#8217;2&#8243;? I don&#8217;t know. He&#8217;s a goofus, after all. For some reason I couldn&#8217;t sleep last night and I&#8217;m feeling antsy again. Perhaps even a bit cranky. My computer doesn&#8217;t seem to be as, &#8220;snappy,&#8221; as I&#8217;d like. I think it was all the rain or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My brother-in-law is a goofus.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}