{"id":1061,"date":"2006-11-12T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2006-11-12T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T07:18:08","slug":"so-sleepy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"So sleepy."},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister came home this morning very EARLY<\/strong>, and of course she called me. To be honest, she didn’t call until 8:41, but it’s Sunday morning and I was still asleep. She called to remind me to pick up our mother at the airport. Like I was going to forget.<\/p>\n

I was almost late, though. I busted out my brand new ladder and cleaned the gutters. Gutters get filled with the worst sort of muck: leaves, mud, and the grit from roofing shingles. My new shiny ladder is now covered in the stuff. I was hoping I could leave it pristine as a symbol of my commitment. I had to go to a suburban Costco to get it and the parking lot was so full that I parked diagonally across in the farthest corner, and I still had to wait for someone to leave before I could park. I braved all sorts of suburban shopping traffic, almost hitting a car that swerved into the turn lane I was in, and then when I rushed back to the gym I found that Dave the Trainer and I had screwed up our schedules and he was busy with another client.<\/p>\n

But in any case, my mom is back, and she’s yelling at my dad now. I don’t have to do it any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My sister came home this morning very EARLY, and of course she called me. To be honest, she didn’t call until 8:41, but it’s Sunday morning and I was still asleep. She called to remind me to pick up our mother at the airport. Like I was going to forget. I was almost late, though. I busted out my brand new ladder and cleaned the gutters. Gutters get filled with the worst sort of muck: leaves, mud, and the grit from roofing shingles. My new shiny ladder is now covered in the stuff. I was hoping I could leave it pristine as a symbol of my commitment. I had to … Continue reading So sleepy.<\/span> →<\/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-1061","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\/1061","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=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}