{"id":10594,"date":"2006-03-12T20:57:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T02:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/this-and-that\/"},"modified":"2006-03-12T20:57:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T02:57:47","slug":"this-and-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/this-and-that\/","title":{"rendered":"This and That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the toaster burning my bagel yesterday morning, I did manage to overcome the disappointment. Hershey managed to choke it down. I managed to mow the front yard and wash the truck. I met my neighbor across the street. Not bad, I&#8217;ve only lived here since last June. It&#8217;s a friendly neighborhood but not necessarily outgoing. I do ok in that environment. I watched some NCAA tournament games and a read a very little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I vacuumed. I watched more NCAA tournament games and watched the selection show. The Big 10 has excellent representation again. I better make my picks.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I managed to do besides cook meals for this week was do 30 pages of revisions for <em>Twilight<\/em>. Part of me thinks I should scrap this, but I do want to try to incorporate my improved villain. On the other hand, my effort may be better expended on a new project&#8211;which I&#8217;ll spend some of this week thinking about in addition to continuing to write some words on <em>Threads and Ties<\/em> each day. T&#038;T has a solid start. I need to see it through to a finished draft. I&#8217;d originally thought I might get it done by the end of March, but I think I&#8217;ll shoot for August or September instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the toaster burning my bagel yesterday morning, I did manage to overcome the disappointment. Hershey managed to choke it down. I managed to mow the front yard and wash the truck. I met my neighbor across the street. Not bad, I&#8217;ve only lived here since last June. It&#8217;s a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/this-and-that\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89,53,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silly-stuff","category-threads-ties","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}