{"id":948,"date":"2005-08-22T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/08\/22\/what-might-have-been\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:49:09","slug":"what-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/08\/22\/what-might-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about writing a big ol ranty rant but, no.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about writing a scholarly treatise on a subject about which I know much and you know little, just to enlighten the world a little bit but, no.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about writing a zany, knee-slappingly funny anecdote (true story! WAHAHAHA!) but, no.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to give you a blow-by-blow account of how my day went from a bad start to a crazy center, gooey like a cream-filled chocolate, only not nearly as good, to movingatthespeedoflight to crisis center action to okay I can&#8217;t do anything about this until tomorrow morning when the guy who knows how to fix it might be at work but, alas, no.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to tell the truth about one of my deep, dark secrets but well, no.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to regale you with the moving and tender account of my baby girl&#8217;s very first day at school, but since she told me I could go after 5 minutes&#8230;no.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you ask? Why, oh WHY, would I not be able to write about any of these things?<\/p>\n<p><b>(<a href=\"http:\/\/artpad.art.com\/gallery\/?iln03h809us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BECAUSE IT&#8217;S HAPPENED AGAIN<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more A miniscule* amount of substance in an otherwise completely unnoteworthy entry--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/37330_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=429 align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\nFirst Day of School (ever) for Karin and First Day of 2nd Grade for Martin<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">*Although, not miniscule in how much the person or persons represented in this pixelated simulacrum MEAN to me, just in the noteworthiness of this otherwise unsubstantial and sub-standard journal entry which I am perfectly aware, if otherwise unrepentant, is the equivalent of phoning it in. I pray your forgiveness. And will someone PLEASE tell me how to get Martin to stop making that goofball face when he&#8217;s being photographed?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about writing a big ol ranty rant but, no. I thought about writing a scholarly treatise on a subject about which I know much and you know little, just to enlighten the world a little bit but, no. I thought about writing a zany, knee-slappingly funny anecdote (true story! WAHAHAHA!) but, no. I was going to give you a blow-by-blow account of how my day went from a bad start to a crazy center, gooey like a cream-filled chocolate, only not nearly as good, to movingatthespeedoflight to crisis center action to okay I can&#8217;t do anything about this&#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":[24,11,17],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-artyfarting","tag-blabbiterlickum","tag-offspring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7603,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}