{"id":23,"date":"2012-11-25T23:09:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T23:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/thanksgiving-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-11-25T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T23:09:53","slug":"thanksgiving-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/thanksgiving-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving has happened! Yeah, some of you won&#8217;t care or even know about that, but it happened nonetheless. Our experience was surprsingly pleasurable despite M having to work half the day and us attending two separate celebrations. We had a delicious and enjoyable meal in Bristol with M&#8217;s dad&#8217;s side of the family, and then drove back to the hood to hang out with Michele&#8217;s mom&#8217;s side of the fam which currently includes an extraordinary number of kids. And it was lovely &#8211; fortunately all of the kids are adorable.<br \/>\nThe last couple of days have involved working on a database for M&#8217;s work (based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakanda.org\/\" title=\"Wakanda\">rather groovy Javascript-based engine<\/a>) and doing some more home work for a <a href=\"https:\/\/class.coursera.org\/crypto-preview\/class\/index\">brilliant, online, cryptography course<\/a>.<br \/>\nThere are a lot of things I was hoping to rant about, but you&#8217;re spared that crap because I&#8217;m tired. For the benefit of my memory, they include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Language-obsessed developers.<\/li>\n<li>Workplaces and their fear of conflict compared to their willingness to silently harbour grudges and then create cult-like hatred of people they&#8217;ve never really talked to.<\/li>\n<li>The entire financial system as it is in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Willing morons.<\/li>\n<li>Morons (willing and unwilling) who are allowed to make decisions.<\/li>\n<li>People who can&#8217;t understand why anyone would be against the idea of working all day every day. (q.v. Morons)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving has happened! Yeah, some of you won&#8217;t care or even know about that, but it happened nonetheless. Our experience was surprsingly pleasurable despite M having to work half the day and us attending two separate celebrations. We had a delicious and enjoyable meal in Bristol with M&#8217;s dad&#8217;s side of the family, and then [&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-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}