{"id":19485,"date":"2021-01-31T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T19:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19485"},"modified":"2021-01-31T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T20:52:18","slug":"on-this-wintry-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19485","title":{"rendered":"On This Wintry Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I am reading<em> Ready Player Two<\/em> by Ernest Cline. So far I&#8217;m not enjoying it. If the book were a ravioli and the filling were pop culture references, dinner would be a big mess of exploded pasta. Meanwhile, nothing happens for the first 120 pages except the main character being a jerk and wallowing in self-pity. I hope it will get better, but I&#8217;m keeping my expectations low.<\/li><li>I like cold and snowy weather, but I think I&#8217;m ready for our annual 3-season vacation from winter. It was -1.4 degrees last night when I went to bed. That is too cold. Negative temps are just so . . . negative.<\/li><li>Livia opened a new art store. This store specializes in dragon art. The prices are monstrously high. When I was a kid, me and my buddy Jason R, who lived across the street, used to sell our works of art at a nearby retirement community for 10 cents each. I know that there&#8217;s this thing called inflation, and I realize that Livia is at a disadvantage, because she has only 3 potential buyers at the moment, so higher prices are to be expected. But $8-$10 per dragon? Egads! I&#8217;m a sucker, though, and I bought two dragons (one was on sale, so I got a better deal on it). The dragons have names: Falcon and Ferabotus.<\/li><li>This weekend&#8217;s goal was to put any lingering Christmas stuff away. There was a great deal of Christmas still loitering about. Yesterday I reluctantly stowed away my books of Christmas music, but first I photocopied the songs that I enjoyed playing. I&#8217;ll put them in a binder so that next year I won&#8217;t have to sight-read all of the music again just to find the ones I like. Today I will attempt to undecorate (dedecorate? disornament? reunadorn?) the Christmas tree and take down my Christmas card display. Blah. This is the least wonderful time of the year.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline. So far I&#8217;m not enjoying it. If the book were a ravioli and the filling were pop culture references, dinner would be a big mess of exploded pasta. Meanwhile, nothing happens &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19485\">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\/19485"}],"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=19485"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19499,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19485\/revisions\/19499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}