{"id":975,"date":"2006-08-15T22:41:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T05:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=975"},"modified":"2006-08-15T22:43:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T05:43:26","slug":"alls-quiet-on-the-mariko-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"All&#8217;s quiet on the Mariko front."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, her in-laws (and her sister-in-law and niece-in-law) were all in town and so she&#8217;s been busy. We all met up for dinner today and it cost me less than the dinner I had by myself in Boston&#8217;s North End. I think I know her big secret, and the secret is I WANT A NEW LAPTOP. Well, I want my laptop back and then I want to sell it to her when the new Intel MacBooks come out. The rumor on the intarweb is sometime this fall.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so it&#8217;s not her secret, it&#8217;s my nefarious scheme, but whatever. Those of you who are coming here because Mariko&#8217;s not posting: this is as good as it&#8217;s gonna get. I can&#8217;t cook, I haven&#8217;t sewed anything since the teddy bear I made for my ex-fiancee about 14 years ago, and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve knit anything other than a lopsided scarf in grade school. I can&#8217;t understand why no one believes I sewed a teddy bear. I can&#8217;t believe I put a whole bag of stuffing in that thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, her in-laws (and her sister-in-law and niece-in-law) were all in town and so she&#8217;s been busy. We all met up for dinner today and it cost me less than the dinner I had by myself in Boston&#8217;s North End. I think I know her big secret, and the secret is I WANT A NEW LAPTOP. Well, I want my laptop back and then I want to sell it to her when the new Intel MacBooks come out. The rumor on the intarweb is sometime this fall. OK, so it&#8217;s not her secret, it&#8217;s my nefarious scheme, but whatever. Those of you who are coming here because Mariko&#8217;s not posting: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All&#8217;s quiet on the Mariko front.<\/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-975","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\/975","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=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}