{"id":7676,"date":"2013-09-18T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T05:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7676"},"modified":"2013-09-18T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T06:27:47","slug":"htodd2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7676","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the rain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September is the best month, statistically, in Oregon but this year it\u2019s been a bit dreary. And I welcome the dreariness. You might wonder why I\u2019m waiting for the end of summer when the next thing is nine months of rain, but I\u2019m an Oregonian and the heat and I don\u2019t get along. That\u2019s only the partial truth and most of my complaints are about the m*th*rf*ck*ng birds going into the m*th*rf*ck*ng chimney at the school across the street. The birds poop all over my car and \u2026 wait, I no longer have a fancy car. Poop on my Prius isn\u2019t so bad. The truth is, 4000 birds attract 20000 people (not on the same day) and that gets to be a huge pain in the ass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2580-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2580\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2580-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2580-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2580-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2577.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2577-1024x297.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2577\" width=\"640\" height=\"185\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2577-1024x297.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2577-150x43.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2577-300x87.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s actually not that bad if I leave for the gym while they\u2019re all here and get back after they leave, but who wants to plan everything around a bunch of people hanging around the neighborhood?<\/p>\n<p>Today was National Cheeseburger Day! $1 burgers at Ringside! Two for one Tillamook Cheeseburgers at Burgerville! What did I have for lunch? A teriyaki chicken sandwich. And for dinner? Natto (the fermented beans that smell like a mop bucket and are slimy and gross but taste pretty good). I figured it was amateur hour and skipped it just like I skipped burger week. In fact, I was at Pause during burger week and I had a pork chop instead of their $5 burger special! That showed \u2018em. (Whoever \u2018em is.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is the best month, statistically, in Oregon but this year it\u2019s been a bit dreary. And I welcome the dreariness. You might wonder why I\u2019m waiting for the end of summer when the next thing is nine months of rain, but I\u2019m an Oregonian and the heat and I don\u2019t get along. That\u2019s only the partial truth and most of my complaints are about the m*th*rf*ck*ng birds going into the m*th*rf*ck*ng chimney at the school across the street. The birds poop all over my car and \u2026 wait, I no longer have a fancy car. Poop on my Prius isn\u2019t so bad. The truth is, 4000 birds attract 20000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting for the rain.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7676","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\/7676","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}