{"id":865,"date":"2004-09-20T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T20:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=865"},"modified":"2004-09-20T20:40:22","modified_gmt":"2004-09-20T20:40:22","slug":"precisely-the-kind-of-dork-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/865","title":{"rendered":"Precisely the kind of dork I am."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a Monday night.  It has been a very good, very productive day &#150; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.mattwelton.com\">mattwelton.com<\/a>, one of my little client gigs, got out the door safely, a couple other client projects moved forward, I did the laundry, took out the trash, snagged some halfway decent chicken biryani for dinner, and now am looking around the universe out here for a midnight sale of the Star Wars trilogy on DVD.  I am somewhat astonished to discover that <i>nobody<\/i> here on the north end is doing a midnight sale.  The <i>hell,<\/i> people?  Borders did a midnight sale for <i>Bill Clinton&#8217;s biography<\/i> but not the DVD set of <i>Star Wars?<\/i>  Where are your <i>priorities?<\/i><br \/>\nNot to <i>mention<\/i> the fact that the last book in <i>The Dark Tower<\/i> series <i>also<\/i> hits the shelves tomorrow.  I&#8217;m honestly mildly flabbergasted that this stuff isn&#8217;t coming out closer to Christmas.  I know these two items would be at the tip-top of my Christmas list, if I had even one iota of restraint&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a Monday night. It has been a very good, very productive day &#150; mattwelton.com, one of my little client gigs, got out the door safely, a couple other client projects moved forward, I did the laundry, took out the trash, snagged some halfway decent chicken biryani for dinner, and now am looking around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-dX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}