{"id":1992,"date":"2015-07-26T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2015-07-26T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T16:21:52","slug":"25-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/26\/25-3\/","title":{"rendered":"25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>.25. Five months until Christmas. Have you started shopping? What do you think it might be like this year?<br><\/em><br>No, no shopping yet that I can think of, though I\u2019m sure there\u2019s gifts stowed away for someone already.&nbsp;<em>nods at wife<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really have no idea at all what it\u2019ll be like. It\u2019ll really depend on my work situation, honestly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I\u2019m unemployed: Uhh, yeah, I haven\u2019t had a Christmas, yet, as a member of the wonderful Jim Webb-inspired Tidewater economy, but I\u2019d imagine it probably won\u2019t be terribly merry. Scraping by even absent the holidays isn\u2019t exactly easy, but I\u2019d imagine it be easier than if I didn\u2019t where the next month\u2019s bills were coming from. (And, I hope you\u2019re enjoying your cell in Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass prison, the guy who recommended me to the four-letter company, setting my salary back to 2007&#8230;..)<br>If I\u2019m still in my own prison, rather like the last two years. In other words, rather meager.<br>If I\u2019ve signed on to a halfway-decent job, it\u2019ll be some much-needsd time off.<br>If I stumble back into the job I want, it could be busy, but I think I\u2019ll be happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.25. Five months until Christmas. Have you started shopping? What do you think it might be like this year?No, no shopping yet that I can think of, though I\u2019m sure there\u2019s gifts stowed away for someone already.&nbsp;nods at wife I really have no idea at all what it\u2019ll be like. It\u2019ll really depend on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}