{"id":6252,"date":"2011-03-22T21:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T01:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2011-03-22T21:48:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T01:48:30","slug":"not-so-rainy-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"Not so rainy Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5551377579\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5177\/5551377579_cf31408f47.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today was pretty much exactly like yesterday, except for the cold and the rain. Although, rumor has it, we can expect more of that &#8212; and possibly even snow &#8212; tomorrow and the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>I did forget my train ticket this morning, one of the main drawbacks of using it as a bookmark rather than keeping it someplace like in my wallet. I&#8217;ve been reading Kathleen Ann Goonan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mississippi-Blues-Kathleen-Ann-Goonan\/dp\/0312859171\">Mississippi Blues<\/a> and, I have to admit, not really enjoying it. I remember <i>Queen City Jazz<\/i>, to which this is a direct sequel, but maybe not too well. And what I am remembering suggests, the problems I&#8217;m having now, were some of the same problems I had with the first book, just amplified or underlined by that series of slight disconnect.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I decided to give the book a break, if not give up on it altogether, and I left it at home. I didn&#8217;t realize until I was on the train, though, that I&#8217;d also left my monthly ticket with it. So I bought another on the train, and then a return peak ticket when I got to Penn Station.<\/p>\n<p>Which is about the extent of excitement for my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was pretty much exactly like yesterday, except for the cold and the rain. Although, rumor has it, we can expect more of that &#8212; and possibly even snow &#8212; tomorrow and the rest of the week. I did forget my train ticket this morning, one of the main drawbacks of using it as a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6252\">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":[16,28],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252"}],"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=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}