{"id":1186,"date":"2006-11-08T06:09:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T10:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:16:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:16:40","slug":"oh-and-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1186\/oh-and-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, and of course&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, and of course, Marty and H.o.p. soundly sleeping, I&#8217;m sitting here trying not to think about Montana and Virginia.  I very successfully avoided thinking about the Senate races all evening.  Was all set for the Senate to be lost.  But now that it&#8217;s down to Montana and Virginia I&#8217;m suddenly obsessed by them now that there is a slim hope of the Dem&#8217;s winning, which means I gave up long ago trying to sleep and am sitting here worrying about what the GOP is up to this very moment.  As I know I won&#8217;t likely be able to sleep I pulled out some art to work on then settled instead on some writing, and I&#8217;ll probably sit here all night pretending to try to do something vaguely but not very constructive (considering my zero career track, I&#8217;d be more constructive shredding paper for cat boxes) while worrying what the GOP is up to right now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, it&#8217;s already nearly morning, the upstairs neighbor up and walking around.  Seems early for her.  I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s obsessive like me and up worrying about Montana and Virginia and the GOP, visions of Bush in his White House domain floating in my head, wondering if he&#8217;s in conference right now or still passed out on whatever he nightly takes to help him sleep.  Probably sleeping.  But Laura may be lying awake in bed wondering what she&#8217;s going to wear today.  Perhaps something sunny yellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, and of course, Marty and H.o.p. soundly sleeping, I&#8217;m sitting here trying not to think about Montana and Virginia. I very successfully avoided thinking about the Senate races all evening. Was all set for the Senate to be lost. But now that it&#8217;s down to Montana and Virginia I&#8217;m suddenly obsessed by them now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[426],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}