{"id":1053,"date":"2006-11-05T23:51:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T07:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2006-11-05T23:51:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T07:51:48","slug":"perhaps-i-should-disconnect-the-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps I should disconnect the phone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time yesterday when I wanted to be asleep. I was hung over, after all, and I didn&#8217;t want to be awake to experience it. Unfortunately, some clown decided that our number was the one he wanted to call at 5:20AM and when no one answered, he called three times. When I finally got to the phone, he figured out that he had misdialled THREE TIMES. Later, the election calls started. Usually they&#8217;re recorded nonsense and they&#8217;re quite annoying.<\/p>\n<p>In Oregon we have 100% mail-in voting. Somehow they can tell when you&#8217;ve sent in your ballot and they stop calling. However, there&#8217;s no way for me to mail in my ballot and then find out if they actually received it. Voting seldom makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s raining so hard here that the police had to be called to block some streets that had become lakes. It usually doesn&#8217;t rain that much here (I keep reminding myself), it just rains all the time. We also had a 2.7 earthquake (barely an earthquake). Somehow, even with all that, I got myself so tired at the gym that I can&#8217;t get excited about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time yesterday when I wanted to be asleep. I was hung over, after all, and I didn&#8217;t want to be awake to experience it. Unfortunately, some clown decided that our number was the one he wanted to call at 5:20AM and when no one answered, he called three times. When I finally got to the phone, he figured out that he had misdialled THREE TIMES. Later, the election calls started. Usually they&#8217;re recorded nonsense and they&#8217;re quite annoying. In Oregon we have 100% mail-in voting. Somehow they can tell when you&#8217;ve sent in your ballot and they stop calling. However, there&#8217;s no way for me to mail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perhaps I should disconnect the phone.<\/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-1053","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\/1053","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=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}