{"id":1541,"date":"2007-12-27T22:57:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T06:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2007-12-28T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T18:00:14","slug":"toys-and-no-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"Toys and no sleep."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was nervous about the snow they predicted for this morning, but it never made much of an appearance. I had to walk my sister&#8217;s dog one last time and then drive her to the airport to pick up my sister and my brother-in-law. I delivered them all home safely as the snow started to fall in earnest. See how weird my language gets when I don&#8217;t sleep because I&#8217;m worried about getting stuck in the snow with a very neurotic dog and also because I&#8217;m reading a book where they FINALLY catch up to Dracula in the last dozen pages or so? I&#8217;ve been reading <em>The Historian<\/em> off and on for a couple of months and I finally finished it. It was worth it but it was quite long.I finally got the GPS mapping thingy that I ordered from Costco. I was unable to get one built into my car, because I wanted a Civic Hybrid and I had to take the car they had. It&#8217;s the wrong color and it doesn&#8217;t have the map built into the dash. It was cheaper this way, but now I have a new gadget making me feel foolish. I guess I should find an address to type into it so I can test it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was nervous about the snow they predicted for this morning, but it never made much of an appearance. I had to walk my sister&#8217;s dog one last time and then drive her to the airport to pick up my sister and my brother-in-law. I delivered them all home safely as the snow started to fall in earnest. See how weird my language gets when I don&#8217;t sleep because I&#8217;m worried about getting stuck in the snow with a very neurotic dog and also because I&#8217;m reading a book where they FINALLY catch up to Dracula in the last dozen pages or so? I&#8217;ve been reading The Historian off and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toys and no sleep.<\/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-1541","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\/1541","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=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}