{"id":573880048,"date":"2010-06-17T23:33:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T04:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880048"},"modified":"2010-07-03T17:55:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T22:55:39","slug":"a-bachelor-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/a-bachelor-again\/","title":{"rendered":"A bachelor again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But only for a short while.<\/p>\n<p>I celebrated by watching television. Do you know what I really like about HD? How the image blocks up and the sound drops out every so often. This is a silly thing to complain about in life, of course. When the signal is clean the shots are beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Pardon me, I watched Batman Begins tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out there was a problem with the signal. We lost cable, phone and internet for a time tonight. I laughingly complained online. A Charter rep sympathized with me on Twitter. I called the service number and learned it was a repair issue and signal of beautiful, digital opiates would soon return to my grateful eyeballs.<\/p>\n<p>And they beat their repair estimate. So this is hardly something to complain about.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, just World Cup &#8212; Argentina vs. Korea, Greece vs. Nigeria and France vs. Mexico. Argentina is entertaining, I enjoy watching Korea. Nigeria is always fun. France is just embarrassing at this point. I love international soccer. It so often conforms to your native perceptions and, when it does, you are pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Still editing photographs. There are now 344 found sprinkled on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo page<\/a>. That still leaves our last stop on the cruise and one final day in Rome to work through. I hope you enjoy vacation pictures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But only for a short while. I celebrated by watching television. Do you know what I really like about HD? How the image blocks up and the sound drops out every so often. This is a silly thing to complain about in life, of course. When the signal is clean the shots are beautiful. Pardon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573880048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site","category-thursday","category-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573880048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573880072,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880048\/revisions\/573880072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573880048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573880048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573880048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}