{"id":19096,"date":"2020-12-13T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19096"},"modified":"2020-12-14T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T07:10:00","slug":"day-275-the-good-news-and-the-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19096","title":{"rendered":"Day 275: The Good News and the Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The good news is that we decorated our Christmas tree today. The children are happy, and the great room looks so very cheerful now, which is good, because I needed something to cheer me up from the bad news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news is that I called my mom today and cancelled our Christmas get-together. I cancelled because I could not in good conscience travel from the state with the highest per capita rate of Covid infections to the state with the lowest. She wasn&#8217;t happy, but she also wasn&#8217;t surprised. She had seen the numbers and was similarly concerned. I&#8217;m glad she understood and agreed that it wasn&#8217;t worth the risk. But I am angry about the situation, and I am mad at the people who made it this way. I probably always will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is that we decorated our Christmas tree today. The children are happy, and the great room looks so very cheerful now, which is good, because I needed something to cheer me up from the bad news. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19096\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096"}],"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=19096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19098,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions\/19098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}