{"id":21576,"date":"2022-01-26T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21576"},"modified":"2022-01-28T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:07:51","slug":"thoughts-1-26-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21576","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts 1\/26\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Both of my puzzle ideas from last year have been approved. The smaller one will get used first. It was created as a replacement for something else, so there is already a space waiting for it to fill, and my boss wants to make the replacement ASAP. The puzzle that it&#8217;s replacing will go to puzzle Hell, where it belongs, and there will be great rejoicing!<\/li><li>I used to have a ton of binder clips. I&#8217;m not sure what happened to them all, but last week I realized that I was down to one. One measly binder clip. I went online to buy more, and I was shocked at the cost. Such high prices for such cheap bits of metal! It took me a while to find a reasonably priced combination, but I finally did, and most of the clips arrived today. Now my cup of binder clips runneth over once more.<\/li><li>Covid numbers are finally down in Rhode Island and in the country as a whole. The country peaked at just over 800,000 cases per day, and now it&#8217;s down to about 650,000 cases per day, which is still a big-ass, scary number, but clearly an improvement. The Covid map at <em>The New York Times<\/em> is no longer the single dark purple of a fresh bruise. It&#8217;s starting to turn splotchy, suggesting that maybe the bruise is starting to heal. I am not over the stress of it, though. I haven&#8217;t kept my worry over the Omicron surge at the top of my thoughts, but it lurks, always there, every day. It&#8217;s like an endless spin of the roulette wheel. Every minor physical complaint from the kids feels like a token of doom. I am so worn out from it.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both of my puzzle ideas from last year have been approved. The smaller one will get used first. It was created as a replacement for something else, so there is already a space waiting for it to fill, and my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21576\">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\/21576"}],"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=21576"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21599,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21576\/revisions\/21599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}