{"id":1415,"date":"2013-05-06T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2013-05-06T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:26:07","slug":"marco-polo-death-by-cat-mixed-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/marco-polo-death-by-cat-mixed-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"marco polo, death by cat, mixed nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a few weeks ago, but it&#8217;s a good story. I was in Walmart getting some groceries and I heard a guy calling out &#8220;Marco!&#8221; to which his son dutifully replied, &#8220;Polo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; the guy said, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t work if you say it since you&#8217;re right here,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He called out Marco a couple more times and when he was a couple aisles over, I shouted out, &#8220;Polo!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I heard a laughed response and then, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that was your mother,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the nice weather over the weekend, I finally got to bust out the flip-flops. One of my friends noted a band-aid on my foot and asked what happened. I replied simply, &#8220;Thunder(cat)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was quiet for a moment, then said, &#8220;That cat is going to kill you one of these days,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know,&#8221; I replied, &#8220;But it will be with love,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I also commented that my reaction time is down and healing factor is up in the time since I&#8217;ve had a cat, but I admit I may be justifying his behavior. He&#8217;s just a great cat and while I wish he was a little less violent, I understand that he&#8217;s a cat and that&#8217;s just how he rolls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I had a run in with some mixed nuts. No, I wasn&#8217;t at work (ba-dum-DUM &#8211; thank you, I&#8217;m here all week), I was actually eating some planters mixed nuts from a can. Now, I have a problem with nuts in general and the problem is that I always eat far too many in one sitting.<\/p>\n<p>That happened to me over the weekend and my stomach and&#8230;well&#8230; basically all of my internal anatomy feel like they have been tied in knots. I had a rough night, a rougher morning, and I&#8217;m still feeling like death warmed over this afternoon. We&#8217;ve got the last of our interviews to conduct this afternoon &#8211; the only reason I&#8217;m here today &#8211; and then I&#8217;m going home and back to bed. Or perhaps the hallway between the bathroom and my bedroom. The carpet is softer in the hallway that in the bathroom, but I suspect proximity may be a factor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to throw out the rest of that can of nuts. It&#8217;s clear I have a problem and I need to take strong action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a few weeks ago, but it&#8217;s a good story. I was in Walmart getting some groceries and I heard a guy calling out &#8220;Marco!&#8221; to which his son dutifully replied, &#8220;Polo&#8221;. &#8220;No,&#8221; the guy said, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t work if you say it since you&#8217;re right here,&#8221; He called out Marco a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}