{"id":78,"date":"2004-12-28T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/28\/when-out-on-the-lawn-there-arose-such-a-clatter\/"},"modified":"2004-12-28T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-28T13:09:00","slug":"when-out-on-the-lawn-there-arose-such-a-clatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/28\/when-out-on-the-lawn-there-arose-such-a-clatter\/","title":{"rendered":"When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Except it was after Christmas and more like a thunk than a clatter.  This was at my parents house about 11:30 on Sunday night.  We all looked around outside, but couldn&#8217;t find anything &#8211; must have been a tree branch breaking under all the ice.<\/p>\n<p>What with the ice storm in Ohio and the tidal waves recently, seems a little like &#8220;The Day After Tomorrow&#8221; here on planet earth.  Not that the two are connected, but it&#8217;s still weird. <\/p>\n<p>Finished up &#8220;Lies and the Lying Liers that tell them: A fair and balanced look at the Right&#8221;, by Al Franken.  A good book, kinda funny, but more scary than anything.  If this had been required reading before the election, there&#8217;d be a differnt dude in the white house in January.<\/p>\n<p>A pretty good christmas &#8211; I got some good stuff and had fun.   I&#8217;m hoping for a quiet new year&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m back at work &#8211; wishing I was still at home, in bed.  Asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Bummer&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-110424015665414223?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except it was after Christmas and more like a thunk than a clatter. This was at my parents house about 11:30 on Sunday night. We all looked around outside, but couldn&#8217;t find anything &#8211; must have been a tree branch breaking under all the ice. What with the ice storm in Ohio and the tidal [&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-78","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\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}