{"id":20625,"date":"2021-07-17T16:59:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T20:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20625"},"modified":"2021-07-17T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T21:01:55","slug":"random-7-17-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20625","title":{"rendered":"Random 7\/17\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>My <em>New Yorker<\/em> subscription has run out. I am surprisingly sad about this. Each issue is chock-full of good stuff, such as cartoons, crossword puzzles, and interesting articles. But, these things come at a cost. In terms of price, <em>The New Yorker<\/em> is ridiculously expensive. It also arrives weekly, which is far too frequently for me to keep up with it. It steals reading time that would otherwise go to <em>Smithsonian<\/em> and <em>Rhode Island Monthly<\/em>, leaving those publications neglected. So, I will probably have to settle for digital access. That is, unless I am offered another subscription at a no-brainer discount price, in which case all bets are off.<\/li><li>The weather is getting in the way of my walks. It always seems to be muggy, buggy, oppressively hot, and\/or pouring. Though the skies have been mostly gray, there has been a bright side to the situation. The excessive rain has kept our stream running merrily along at a time when normally it would be dry. I am delighted by that.<\/li><li>Summer comes with bug bites. This has always been the case, and it always will be. Consequently I am willing to accept a certain number of them, barring tick bites, without complaint. But, lately I have been getting eaten alive, and unfortunately that affects my sleep, because the itching wakes me up in the middle of the night. The more bites I get, the worse my allergy to them gets, which means bigger welts and worse itching. I need to be a little more careful about what I wear outside, and when and where I walk. I may even have to consider using a mosquito repellent (if only it weren&#8217;t as repulsive to me as it is to mosquitoes!).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My New Yorker subscription has run out. I am surprisingly sad about this. Each issue is chock-full of good stuff, such as cartoons, crossword puzzles, and interesting articles. But, these things come at a cost. In terms of price, The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20625\">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\/20625"}],"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=20625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20628,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20625\/revisions\/20628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}