{"id":3747,"date":"2016-03-13T08:54:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2016-03-13T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T15:01:19","slug":"in-front-of-the-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2016\/03\/13\/in-front-of-the-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"In Front of the Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDude, you\u2019re on a roll today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Here\u2019s that guy again. He shows up from time to time to lob shots at this blog. I\u2019m not sure what his objective is most of the time. I\u2019m not quite sure how to respond. (To be honest, I\u2019m not sure he even exists and isn\u2019t instead just a voice inside my head, but we won\u2019t go there.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got nothing better to do on a weekend than sit in front of your keyboard?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatience my friend. There is digging to do, and you\u2019re free to pick up that mattock and help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWh\u2026what are you talking about?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s ok. We won\u2019t get started for a while. In the meantime, here\u2019s some purple for my caretaker and companion, Chachi Bette, who recently returned from an all-too-brief sojourn down here and has now returned to the frigid land of snow-encrusted driveways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2016\/03\/i-ZN2H5w4\/0\/X3\/DSC_0114-X3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2016\/03\/i-ZN2H5w4\/0\/L\/DSC_0114-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But hey my friend, it\u2019s glorious outside. The sky is blue. The sun is shining. The Mockingbirds and Cardinals and Wrens are singing. And as you have evidently noticed, the flowers are blooming. So we\u2019ll wait for you in the backyard with the mattock and a couple shovels while this picture uploads. Join us, because <em>this is indeed no day to be stuck in front of the keyboard!<\/em>\u00a0And because there is honestly no better way to celebrate a day like this than by <em>digging in the dirt!<\/em>\u00a0We\u2019ll see you in a few minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDude, you\u2019re on a roll today.&#8221; Here\u2019s that guy again. He shows up from time to time to lob shots at this blog. I\u2019m not sure what his objective is most of the time. I\u2019m not quite sure how to respond. (To be honest, I\u2019m not sure he even exists and isn\u2019t instead just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}