{"id":23689,"date":"2025-03-17T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:37:04","slug":"fixed-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23689","title":{"rendered":"Fixed, Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>In case you were wondering, the power company did finally come to fix our power lines that weekend (but only after my husband made himself a &#8220;squeaky wheel&#8221; by calling again). Then our electrician got to work hooking everything up. It took him several hours, and he had to replace a bunch of stuff, including the meter. Such work and gear does not come cheap. We knew it before we got the bill, and the bill proved it. Oh, well. I&#8217;ve gotten so beaten down by the cost of everything lately that this kind of thing just makes me shrug now. It&#8217;s not worth the energy it would take to get upset. Bright sides: while the electrician worked, our power was out, and I chitchatted with the kids for a while, which was nice, and then did some reading by lantern-light, plus the new meter looks better than the old gear did.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our most recent jigsaw puzzle was so hard that everyone gave up on it but me. It was so hard that I hardly knew where to start. It required every jigsaw-solving strategy I had, and it took me several weeks to finish. Now that it&#8217;s done, I&#8217;m proud of it. It&#8217;s a reminder that everything is hard at first, but hard work and persistence win out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The warmish and rainy weather has brought out the peepers. I want to say that peepers are a sure sign that spring has arrived. But peepers do sometimes get fooled by unseasonable weather. Not this year, I think. This year they seem to be right on target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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\/23689"}],"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=23689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23761,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions\/23761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}