{"id":1576,"date":"2009-08-29T15:51:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2009-08-29T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T21:51:59","slug":"the-sort-of-things-that-i-think-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/08\/29\/the-sort-of-things-that-i-think-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The sort of things that I think about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, back in my radio days, I dramatically announced &#8220;My dear friends&#8230;&#8221;, held out my hand like a Shakespearean soliloquoy was right around the corner about to collide with me, and emitted a massive belch.  I thought it was kinda funny, perhaps even a little too calculated for sheer incongruity.  It sure brought the room to a halt (yes, there were other people there).  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today, my son calmly walked up to me and said &#8220;Uh&#8230;dad?  BURRRRRRP!&#8221;  While I&#8217;m contemplating the almost astronomical amount of embarrassment I&#8217;d be feeling if this had taken place in a public venue instead of my room here at the house, I must admit to an undercurrent of &#8220;<em>That&#8217;s my boy!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other thoughts that have occurred to me on a day largely filled with playtime with little E, cat care, cooking and general bummage-aroundage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do the Wonder Pets ever just say &#8220;Aw, screw it&#8221; and let the call go to voice mail when the phone, the phone is ringing?<\/li>\n<li>If someone designs an artsy-fartsy well system, will it be referred to as &#8220;artsy-fartsy&#8221;, or &#8220;artesian-fartesian&#8221;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please discuss.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/theboys.jpg\" alt=\"Evan and his horsie and his daddy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, back in my radio days, I dramatically announced &#8220;My dear friends&#8230;&#8221;, held out my hand like a Shakespearean soliloquoy was right around the corner about to collide with me, and emitted a massive belch. I thought it was kinda funny, perhaps even a little too calculated for sheer incongruity. It sure brought the room to a halt (yes, there were other people there).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-baby-makes-three","category-funny-stuff","category-hizzouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}