{"id":830,"date":"2003-09-17T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/sensitive-bats\/"},"modified":"2003-09-17T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T23:18:13","slug":"sensitive-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/sensitive-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensitive bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few nights Michele has been a very sensitive bat. The slightest thing causes tear welling, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web-based anecdotes about parrots who have run\/flown away<\/li>\n<li>Web-based anecdotes about parrots in general<\/li>\n<li>Listening to the lyrics of Johnny Cash songs &#8211; especially &#8220;Hurt&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite loving parrots, especially Humphrey, with his pink fluffy neck, it&#8217;s the last one I identify with. Please don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m turning into a country and western fan, but there are certain exponents of the genre that need recognition. &#8220;Hurt&#8221; is the most beautiful, reflective song about the death of Johnny Cash&#8217;s wife which causes him to think about what&#8217;s important in life.<br \/>\nAnd you know who wrote it ? Nine Inch Nails. Nine Inch Bloody Nails. Well there you go &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The last 24 hours have been unbelievably busy. In a nutshell: two major securiy upgrades &#8211; including another one as a free bonus. As a result of one of them, and RedHat&#8217;s shitty EZ-package-system, I ended up totally shafting the payroll server&#8230;which resulted in an OS upgrade that took place at 8am today. Grimmer than it sounds. All day I got phone calls that generated a massively in-depth amount of work for the next few weeks. I&#8217;m going to bed. Good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few nights Michele has been a very sensitive bat. The slightest thing causes tear welling, including Web-based anecdotes about parrots who have run\/flown away Web-based anecdotes about parrots in general Listening to the lyrics of Johnny Cash songs &#8211; especially &#8220;Hurt&#8221; Despite loving parrots, especially Humphrey, with his pink fluffy neck, it&#8217;s [&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-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}