{"id":299,"date":"2008-10-19T21:14:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T01:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-10-19T21:14:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T01:14:28","slug":"in-this-town-we-call-home-everyone-hail-to-the-pumpkin-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/19\/in-this-town-we-call-home-everyone-hail-to-the-pumpkin-throne\/","title":{"rendered":"in this town we call home, everyone hail to the pumpkin throne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I might be slightly insane (and I barely even had any wine with <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/listings\/restaurant\/coco_roco\/\" target=\"_blank\">dinner tonight<\/a> so I&#8217;m definitely not drunk), but I just up + signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/nablopomo.ning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NaBloPoMo<\/a> again. &#8220;But, but, but,&#8221; you splutter, &#8220;you haven&#8217;t managed to blag more than 3 times this month, and next month you think you&#8217;ll have time for <b>30<\/b> blags?&#8221; To which I reply: yep, and yep. Clearly I need the push right now. I mean, it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m not busy (I am), but I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some space for blagging if I squint and look at my days sideways. Or upside down.<\/p>\n<p>The holidays are coming, so we&#8217;re breaking out all of our favorite holiday videos. We&#8217;ve watched the Charlie Brown trilogy and The Nightmare Before Christmas a few times in the past week, and now all of the music from all of them is running on an endless loop through my head. Which is not so bad, really.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody had a birthday today, and got lots of new electronic things with which to play. Including a 200x microscope that plugs into a computer. Said person is now roaming around the house looking for blood (literally). One cool thing is that you can take a motion capture video from the microscope. I&#8217;ll let you know when our friends the sea monkeys become You Tube stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I might be slightly insane (and I barely even had any wine with dinner tonight so I&#8217;m definitely not drunk), but I just up + signed up for NaBloPoMo again. &#8220;But, but, but,&#8221; you splutter, &#8220;you haven&#8217;t managed to blag more than 3 times this month, and next month you think you&#8217;ll have time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}