{"id":502,"date":"2008-09-26T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/500-flowers-lost\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T17:20:00","slug":"500-flowers-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/500-flowers-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"500, flowers, lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is post #500.   Which is somewhat amazing since I&#8217;m usually the quiet one without a lot to say.  Apparently, I have a lot to write.<\/p>\n<p>Today, while walking back from my swim, I saw a group of people working on one of the flower beds in the shape of the UA logo.   They had tarps set up and were carefully working on the white flowers &#8211; spray painting them blue.   UA blue &#8211; to be exact.  This would be a nice contrast to the naturally occurring UA yellow flowers under the tarps.  I&#8217;m hoping this was some environmentally friendly organic paint &#8211; but it didn&#8217;t smell like it.  It was like something out of a chuck Palahniuk novel.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to mention earlier that my room-mate bought a Garmin last night &#8211; with a little technical help from me.  Ironically, it sent us the wrong direction of the first place we tried and it listed a Pizza Hut that closed a while ago.  The rest of the directional requests went well and he has it talking in a crisp British accent.  I think the next step will try to get it to speak Italian.<\/p>\n<p>later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-1573624915045834524?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is post #500. Which is somewhat amazing since I&#8217;m usually the quiet one without a lot to say. Apparently, I have a lot to write. Today, while walking back from my swim, I saw a group of people working on one of the flower beds in the shape of the UA logo. They had [&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-502","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\/502","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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}