{"id":521,"date":"2004-06-04T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/06\/04\/run-down\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:54:49","slug":"run-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/06\/04\/run-down\/","title":{"rendered":"RUN DOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the 42 different shades of green have blended and become one, a great green leafy soup. The lilacs are browning, burned on top from the sun. Trees and bushes with white flowers are blooming: spirea, chestnuts, guelder-rose, and rowan. I love the rowans with their big white flower clumps that become bright red berries in the fall. Their leaves will turn intense shades of orangey-red then as well. Wild carrots* trace a frothy lace of icing along the roadways. Leopard&#8217;s bane, daisies and meadow buttercups dot yellow in fields of puffball dandelions that tremble and shed with every errant gust of wind. The dog-roses have blossomed too, they&#8217;ll be fat rosehips for tea come autumn. Rhododendrons are showing off everywhere in their own personal beauty pageants, and the peonies have fat bud balls ready to burst open any minute.<\/p>\n<p><b>Handy Swedish Phrases I Learned Today:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>glad gam\u00e4ng<\/i> &#8211; a happy-go-lucky person, literally &#8220;happy gamin&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><i>ful fisk<\/i> &#8211; someone fishy, dodgy, deceptive, literally &#8220;ugly fish&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><i>rent mj\u00f6l i p\u00e5sen<\/i> &#8211; good conscience, literally &#8220;clean flour in the bag&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Things I&#8217;ve Designed in the Last 3 Weeks:<\/b><br \/>\n32-page catalog, 4-page newsletter, 1 e-mail newsletter, 4 separate full page advertisements, 1 small notebook (front &#038; back covers), 2-page product brief, 4 web banner ads, 4 powerpoint presentations, 3 speaker signs, nametags, 1 new website section for work, 10-page online newsletter and 4-page printed newsletter for the AWC, 2 software diagrams in Illustrator, 1 pattern sample for fabric, 1 product icon, 1 registration form, 1 t-shirt design, 1 partner event invitation, 1 customer satisfaction survey, 1 email mailshot&#8230;<b>WHEW!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Edited to Add:<\/b> I was just given 2 free movie passes for my hard work! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><font size=1><i>*That&#8217;s Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace to you. \ud83d\ude00<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the 42 different shades of green have blended and become one, a great green leafy soup. The lilacs are browning, burned on top from the sun. Trees and bushes with white flowers are blooming: spirea, chestnuts, guelder-rose, and rowan. I love the rowans with their big white flower clumps that become bright red berries in the fall. Their leaves will turn intense shades of orangey-red then as well. Wild carrots* trace a frothy lace of icing along the roadways. Leopard&#8217;s bane, daisies and meadow buttercups dot yellow in fields of puffball dandelions that tremble and shed with every errant&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6057,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/6057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}