{"id":17935,"date":"2020-07-14T22:16:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T02:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=17935"},"modified":"2020-08-15T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:12:12","slug":"day-123-weather-dinner-and-bad-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=17935","title":{"rendered":"Day 123: Weather, Dinner, and Bad Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>It was almost as if the Lords of the Sky didn&#8217;t want me to walk today. Every time I started to think maybe I should go out, the sky rumbled. Eventually I took a chance and went outside. It had just stopped raining and the sun was out, though there was thunder in the distance. Marshall came outside and walked for a while with me. He asked me what I wanted to talk about, and I had nothing. My life is so repetitive now that I have nothing to talk about. But we had a nice walk anyway, and we finished just before the rain started up again.<\/li><li>I made pancakes for dinner. It wasn&#8217;t the healthiest of dinners, but it&#8217;s what I thought I could manage given the ingredients I had and the mood I was in.<\/li><li>The coronavirus numbers were not good today. The U.S. had over 65,000 new cases and 900 deaths, and our country&#8217;s total death count will top 140,000 later this week. When I first started blogging about the virus and subsequent lockdown, I never could have imagined how poorly we&#8217;d do as a nation. I mean, Italy had shown us how easy it was to do poorly, but we&#8217;re the U.S., and we&#8217;re great, right? Well, not so much now, if ever we were. I am mentally bracing myself for worse numbers to come.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was almost as if the Lords of the Sky didn&#8217;t want me to walk today. Every time I started to think maybe I should go out, the sky rumbled. Eventually I took a chance and went outside. It had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=17935\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[607],"tags":[615,27,315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17935"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17943,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935\/revisions\/17943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}