{"id":222,"date":"2006-03-09T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/a-minor-problem\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T17:19:00","slug":"a-minor-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/a-minor-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"a minor problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reaffirmed, yesterday, that I have a problem and the problem is this:<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t get a straw out of it&#8217;s wrapper.<\/p>\n<p>Well, okay, yeah, sure I can eventually extract the straw, but not in the cool &#8220;clutch the straw in a death grip and slam it on the counter until the wrapper gives way&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My method usually involves laboriously tearing the top flap and then tearing a small chunk of the wrapper away until I can actually get a good grip on the straw.<br \/>Whenever I try to do it like the cool kids do, one of two things happens:<\/p>\n<p>1. Nothing<\/p>\n<p>2. The straw bends &#8211; or occasionally breaks as well.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the secret is or the mystery behind my failure. I think&#8230;. yes, I think I might be a loser. I even looked on the net for help &#8211; all I can find are the really cool kids shooting the straw wrappers like paper darts of doom.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s time to go get some lunch and face my failure again. Should I risk a broken straw &#8211; or should I just take my time and suffer in silence?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;ll just get a <em>bottle<\/em> of soda. Yeah, that&#8217;s the ticket. Screwtop bottles &#8211; those I can handle.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story&#8230; clearly, I need more sleep.<\/p>\n<p>later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-114192536175019629?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reaffirmed, yesterday, that I have a problem and the problem is this: I can&#8217;t get a straw out of it&#8217;s wrapper. Well, okay, yeah, sure I can eventually extract the straw, but not in the cool &#8220;clutch the straw in a death grip and slam it on the counter until the wrapper gives way&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-222","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\/222","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}