{"id":3820,"date":"2010-03-15T22:14:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2010-03-15T22:14:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:14:32","slug":"beware-the-ides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3820","title":{"rendered":"Beware the ides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4433481386\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2682\/4433481386_3e0dacc3c6.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The ides of March used to be a day for celebration. But then Julius Caesar had to ruin all that by getting murdered and everything. I mean, seriously, what&#8217;s up with that?<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t sleep at all well last night, maybe because of the change over to Daylight Savings Time, and I felt lousy enough this morning that I called (or, rather, e-mailed) in sick. It&#8217;s not something I like doing, but I actually spent a good part of the day doing what I would have had I gone into the office &#8212; namely, reading the last revised chapter in that book I want to get off my desk and into production before I head off to San Jose next week. With luck, I&#8217;ll finish marking it up tomorrow, and with luck it won&#8217;t <i>need<\/i> much marking up. Then I&#8217;ll e-mail it back to the author, who will look it over and let me know if he&#8217;s okay with my final edits.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, it was a boring day spent mostly reading and listening to the DVD commentary on John Carpenter&#8217;s <i>The Thing<\/i>. I&#8217;m going to make sure I get a good night&#8217;s sleep tonight and head into the office tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ides of March used to be a day for celebration. But then Julius Caesar had to ruin all that by getting murdered and everything. I mean, seriously, what&#8217;s up with that? I didn&#8217;t sleep at all well last night, maybe because of the change over to Daylight Savings Time, and I felt lousy enough &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3820\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,52],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}