{"id":1149,"date":"2006-11-19T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2006-11-19T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T15:44:38","slug":"sunday-grab-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"Sunday grab bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Cirque du soleil as I type. I am always amazed at what dedicated individials can do to\/with their bodies. Midget contortionists and tall women sticking their legs behind their ears. Now it&#8217;s raining stuffed animals. Remote control monkeys and guys dancing on ladders.<\/p>\n<p>My fist is black and blue because I punched a bulldozer yesterday. You think that&#8217;s something, you should see the dozer.<\/p>\n<p>Not a scratch.<\/p>\n<p>An old colleague, and brilliant machine repairman I worked with a million years ago, who now has his own thriving business, has a sick little boy. I sometimes look at his new truck, his new hummer, his big house, harleys, tools, etc. and think, Man, I&#8217;d like to have all that stuff. Stuff don&#8217;t mean anything if you&#8217;re kid is sick, that drives everything else from your life. Keep Tyler in your prayers. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get into the field yesterday because of the action of a couple of asstards, but it ended up being a good day despite them. And I intend to get afield on friday- maybe even thanksgiving morning. <\/p>\n<p>Snow this morning. Sleety wet snow. None ever hit the ground, but it was there regardless. Days like today I tend to bemoan the unfairness of having to have a conventional life instead of spending most of the fall outdoors. Not too much, mind you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Cirque du soleil as I type. I am always amazed at what dedicated individials can do to\/with their bodies. Midget contortionists and tall women sticking their legs behind their ears. Now it&#8217;s raining stuffed animals. Remote control monkeys and guys dancing on ladders. My fist is black and blue because I punched a bulldozer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}