{"id":23436,"date":"2024-12-01T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23436"},"modified":"2024-12-04T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:59:05","slug":"23436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23436","title":{"rendered":"12\/21\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I tried listening to <em>The Nutcracker Suite<\/em> on YouTube the other day, but there were all these weird, nonrhythmic beats that were driving me nuts. Turns out it was a live recording of the ballet. All those little thuds were the dancers&#8217; feet hitting the stage. How dare they spoil the music that way! \ud83d\ude09<\/li><li>At Thanksgiving, it seemed like every conversation wanted to veer off in a political direction, but we steered clear somehow. The only topic we didn&#8217;t manage to avoid was Covid, but it&#8217;s a tough one to avoid, given that it&#8217;s cold season.<\/li><li>I have too much stuff in my closet, and I&#8217;d like to get rid of some things, but I can&#8217;t. Take the crutches, for example. I don&#8217;t want them, and I don&#8217;t need them. But, my husband and I have both noticed a sad truth about life: if you keep something for a long time and then give it away, you&#8217;ll need it soon after. So, I must keep the crutches forever to ensure that I&#8217;ll never need them. &lt;sigh&gt;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried listening to The Nutcracker Suite on YouTube the other day, but there were all these weird, nonrhythmic beats that were driving me nuts. Turns out it was a live recording of the ballet. All those little thuds were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23436\">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":[10],"tags":[69,52,517,85,320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436"}],"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=23436"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23446,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436\/revisions\/23446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}