{"id":3364,"date":"2011-12-21T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T00:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2011-12-21T16:09:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T00:09:20","slug":"the-madding-throng-or-where-the-heck-are-my-car-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/the-madding-throng-or-where-the-heck-are-my-car-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"The madding throng&#8212;or where the heck are my car keys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually&#8212;the Swinging Door. Jane and I went out for dinner last night: I owed her a steak after what she did helping me with those galleys. But&#8212;I left my keys.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;.today we had lunch\/brunch with OSG and OSGuy, and then Jane went home and I went off in quest of lost keys, to mail my brother&#8217;s birthday present (late) and to get Christmas dessert, cheese, and such&#8212;and stop by the pharmacy counter at Freddy Myers&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>It is, officially, a zoo out there. Every aisle filled with cart-pushers who erupt into other aisles at high speed; and the stock&#8212;OMG, the stock: this store has gone to seed on footed hoodie pjs in very large print and fuzzy. I&#8217;m not sure you could wear those things without sweating if you were snowbound in Nome in a power-out. Certainly the patterns are highly visible, if you are planning on a helicopter rescue while wearing a fuzzy hoodie footie.<\/p>\n<p>I am officially tired. But this time it&#8217;s a good tired. We&#8217;ve got the tree(s) up, the woodland tree, which is little, and all animals; and the big (6&#8242;) tree with, this year, mostly snowflakes we&#8217;re relatively sure the kittehs won&#8217;t eat. Jane mislaid one of the metal ones and had a laugh when I described it as a kind of shuriken&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we&#8217;ve watched too much anime.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I bought desserts for Christmas, kind of a smorgasbord of small dessert servings; and it&#8217;ll be pepperoni pizza again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually&#8212;the Swinging Door. Jane and I went out for dinner last night: I owed her a steak after what she did helping me with those galleys. But&#8212;I left my keys. So&#8230;.today we had lunch\/brunch with OSG and OSGuy, and then Jane went home and I went off in quest of lost keys, to mail my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}