{"id":952,"date":"2005-08-27T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/08\/27\/things-that-go-a-long-way\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:49:09","slug":"things-that-go-a-long-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/08\/27\/things-that-go-a-long-way\/","title":{"rendered":"THINGS THAT GO A LONG WAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Finally having a chance to get caught up on LJ\/blogs\/emails\n<\/li>\n<li>Getting the AWC website\/newsletter finished, put together and sent for proofreading\n<\/li>\n<li>Sleeping in until 9:30 a.m.\n<\/li>\n<li>Going grocery shopping and finding a unexpected huge shelf of American products at a store I rarely patronize\n<\/li>\n<li>Finding a 4-meter trampoline on the internet for 1\/2 the price and listening to the shrieks of joy coming from the backyard\n<\/li>\n<li>A blue and white cloud-streaked sky, sunshine, a breeze. Late summer greens, a veritable palette of different shades: sage, olive, beige, avocado, silvery-grey-green, purple-tipped.\n<\/li>\n<li>A vase full of white lilies, pink roses, white strawflowers, green berries and several other flowers whose names I do not know\n<\/li>\n<li>Eating a chocolate fudge Pop-Tart for a mid-afternoon snack\n<\/li>\n<li>Finding out that Kristian does NOT have Burkitt&#8217;s Lymphoma, which was initially feared, but a &#8220;regular aggressive&#8221; sort, and that the prognosis is good, at this point\n<\/li>\n<li>Thawing crayfish and crayfish tails in preparation for a Swedish crayfish party with friends tonight\n<\/li>\n<li>A new Smithsonian magazine in the mail, even though 1 article is about the decline in shark populations all over the world due to overfishing, territory encroachment and human predation, 1 article is about global warming due mostly to human factors, and the effect on the rapidly disappearing glaciers, and another article is about the mountainous increase in e-waste, including scrapped computers, peripherals, electronics and mobile phones which have toxic components. Why can&#8217;t we, as humans, treat our planet with respect and care?\n<\/li>\n<li>NO plans whatsoever tomorrow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>A Very Big Pile of Bubbly Birthday Wishes to <a href=\"http:\/\/wavebreaker.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">wavebreaker<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally having a chance to get caught up on LJ\/blogs\/emails Getting the AWC website\/newsletter finished, put together and sent for proofreading Sleeping in until 9:30 a.m. Going grocery shopping and finding a unexpected huge shelf of American products at a store I rarely patronize Finding a 4-meter trampoline on the internet for 1\/2 the price and listening to the shrieks of joy coming from the backyard A blue and white cloud-streaked sky, sunshine, a breeze. Late summer greens, a veritable palette of different shades: sage, olive, beige, avocado, silvery-grey-green, purple-tipped. A vase full of white lilies, pink roses, white strawflowers,&#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":[14],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-goodthings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5528,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}