{"id":573882534,"date":"2011-12-12T23:39:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T05:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573882534"},"modified":"2011-12-16T23:52:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T05:52:05","slug":"sick-making-this-a-photo-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/sick-making-this-a-photo-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick, making this a photo day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been struggling to describe how it felt to wake up this morning, where I communicated with gestures and grimaces for the better part of my first waking hour because the <em>idea<\/em> of talking hurt. Also, I was trying in vain to avoid the inevitable ancestry-cursing activity of <em>swallowing<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to express it, other than to say that if Death had a next door neighbor, and that Death thought that neighbor needed to lighten up just a bit, I might have understood how the neighbor felt.<\/p>\n<p>Things got a bit better through the day, but only a bit. <\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, here&#8217;s a picture to hold us over for today:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec11\/dec50.jpg\" alt=\"Torsk\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the USS Torsk, which is on display as a museum ship at Baltimore&#8217;s inner harbor. She was called the Galloping Ghost of the Japanese Ghost, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. <\/p>\n<p>The Torsk is important because she torpedoed the last enemy ship sunk by the U.S. Navy in World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been struggling to describe how it felt to wake up this morning, where I communicated with gestures and grimaces for the better part of my first waking hour because the idea of talking hurt. Also, I was trying in vain to avoid the inevitable ancestry-cursing activity of swallowing. I&#8217;m not sure how to express [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573882534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882534","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=573882534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573882535,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882534\/revisions\/573882535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573882534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573882534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573882534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}