{"id":462,"date":"2010-01-25T21:01:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2010-01-25T21:01:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:01:24","slug":"monday-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Monday, Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was hard to get out of bed this morning: gray, wet, dreary. I had a dog draped across my ankles, and a cat on my chest. Nick suggested I might suddenly develop a horrid 24-hour bug. For all I got done at work today I might as well have stayed home. Paperwork, filing, email: all the things that accumulate after being gone for a week, and not so much actual <i>work<\/i>. When I left for the office this morning it was 54F and pouring rain &#8211; where did my January go???<\/p>\n<p>I spent last week in Vermont. The snow-covered and frozen lake looked very pretty, I think, but the conference arrangements were such that I mostly saw the inside of a hotel conference room entirely indistinguishable from all other hotel conference rooms. I didn&#8217;t take my camera, so you&#8217;ll just have to take my word for the &#8220;pretty&#8221; part. I <i>did<\/i> come home with three pounds of wool. (Yes, I managed to score wool at a professional conference. What??)<\/p>\n<p>Instead of anything relevant, have this photograph of Grendel and his buddy Fenris (the shorter one; sadly now deceased) playing in the water in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/waterdogs-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Grendel and Fenris\" title=\"waterdogs\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was hard to get out of bed this morning: gray, wet, dreary. I had a dog draped across my ankles, and a cat on my chest. Nick suggested I might suddenly develop a horrid 24-hour bug. For all I got done at work today I might as well have stayed home. Paperwork, filing, email: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-going-places","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}