{"id":169,"date":"2005-11-22T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2005-11-22T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T02:38:08","slug":"simulated-holiday-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Simulated Holiday Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a note to wish everyone well for this week’s holiday.<\/p>\n

I’m still dealing with some health issues which, obviously, have limited my energy for blogging (to almost nothing). Nevertheless, I cling stubbornly to life — or it to me, I’m not sure — and work on *Hard Time: Season 2* continues to progress.<\/p>\n

The rest of you stay well — please! Eat some solid food for me on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of holiday snarkism and apropos of current film fare, herewith a mini-parody (authorship unknown) that dates back to my high school days:<\/p>\n

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine.
\nI keep my pants up with a piece of twine.
\nI’d love to hug and kiss you, dear divine.
\nPlease say you’re mine.
\nAnd pull the twine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

May your sacrificial fowl be hot, juicy, stuffed, and loaded with tryptophan — and nothing viral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a note to wish everyone well for this week’s holiday. I’m still dealing with some health issues which, obviously, have limited my energy for blogging (to almost nothing). Nevertheless, I cling stubbornly to life — or it to me, I’m not sure — and work on *Hard Time: Season 2* continues to progress. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}