{"id":5394,"date":"2019-03-30T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T18:14:00","slug":"the-old-sailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2019\/03\/30\/the-old-sailor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Sailor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><br \/>\nThere once was an old sailor my grandfather knew<br \/>Who had so many things which he wanted to do<br \/>That, whenever he thought it was time to begin,<br \/>He couldn&#8217;t because of the state he was in. <\/em> <\/p>\n<p>&mdash; A.A. Milne, The Old Sailor<\/p>\n<p>Time to finish that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>final assignment<\/em><\/span> on the day after an auspicious birthday, which was one excuse not to finish. Time to finish that last assignment, having returned from lunch with Bill, which was another excuse not to finish.&nbsp;Time to&#8230; Ok, let us not emulate the old sailor again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2019\/03\/i-XtNHM3b\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2019\/03\/i-XtNHM3b\/0\/0976ff8b\/L\/IMG_6159b-L.jpg\" width=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">&mdash;To <em><strong>Lorna<\/strong><\/em>, who (like many others) will know the book cover and the two hidden behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There once was an old sailor my grandfather knewWho had so many things which he wanted to doThat, whenever he thought it was time to begin,He couldn&#8217;t because of the state he was in. &mdash; A.A. Milne, The Old Sailor Time to finish that final assignment on the day after an auspicious birthday, which was [&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\/5394"}],"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=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}