{"id":124,"date":"2010-06-16T03:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/update\/"},"modified":"2010-06-16T03:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T03:05:25","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/update\/","title":{"rendered":"update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the benefit of my memory, here are some recent events. Apologies to you, loyal reader, but I don&#8217;t want to get involved in lawsuits, because the law is an ass&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the enlightened world, we understand that driving a car is something that deserves one&#8217;s full attention. So observing people who talk on the phone or, worse, text whilst driving is therefore quite bizarre to us. Tonight, as I was being given a ride home, I noticed the woman in the car next to us was texting and had neither hand on the steering wheel&#8230; OK we were crawling along, but it was I76 (expressway\/motorway). I regarded her with contempt and tried to make eye contact. I failed.<br \/>\nLess than 10 Meters down the road we heard a screech of tyres and managed to observe the silly bitch brake and drive onto the hard-shoulder just in time to avoid hitting the car in front.<\/li>\n<li>I for one welcome our new (potential) Dutch overlords.<\/li>\n<li>We have a new house-guest, a little powder-blue and white budgie. Let me know if you&#8217;re interested in giving him a full and loving life (and you live in\/near Philly). We&#8217;re trying to find his genuine owners but if we fail &#8211; he&#8217;ll need some love.<\/li>\n<li>mpg321 can&#8217;t handle ID3v2 tags properly. I have a patch if you&#8217;re interested.<\/li>\n<li>I miss my family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the benefit of my memory, here are some recent events. Apologies to you, loyal reader, but I don&#8217;t want to get involved in lawsuits, because the law is an ass&#8230; In the enlightened world, we understand that driving a car is something that deserves one&#8217;s full attention. So observing people who talk on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}