{"id":314,"date":"2007-01-03T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/song-grandma-gift-cards\/"},"modified":"2007-01-03T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T12:53:00","slug":"song-grandma-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/song-grandma-gift-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"song, grandma, gift cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning, after a series of dreams about work, with the song &#8211; &#8220;Copacabana&#8221;  running through my head.  I&#8217;ve been trying to scrub it out with some help from iTunes and YouTube, but even the most bubble-gum-ish top 40&#8217;s pop isn&#8217;t enough to purge it from my head.<\/p>\n<p>In other, less disturbing news, I got a call from Dad with an update on Grandma.  She&#8217;s home and doing better.  I called her last night and we chatted a bit.  Seems like she was in good spirits and we had a nice conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I got a pile of gift cards for christmas this year &#8211; looks like I get a second wave of christmas this year while I do some shopping for myself.   Which is always quite nice.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s about it for now &#8211; except that it appears that I&#8217;m the only one in my group here today.  Could be a really quiet &#8211; or a really busy &#8211; day.<\/p>\n<p>later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-6221680654321677056?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning, after a series of dreams about work, with the song &#8211; &#8220;Copacabana&#8221; running through my head. I&#8217;ve been trying to scrub it out with some help from iTunes and YouTube, but even the most bubble-gum-ish top 40&#8217;s pop isn&#8217;t enough to purge it from my head. In other, less disturbing [&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-314","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\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}